Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 (Platform Software Release C.60.00) (30216-90269)

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Peripherals
A3716A 144 GB DDS-3 Autoloader for MPE/iX
A3716A 144 GB DDS-3 Autoloader for
MPE/iX
by Aida Silva
Commercial Systems Division
Product Overview
The A3716A is a high-speed high-capacity tape product combined with
an autoloader. The tape drive conforms to the DDS-3 standard. The
autoloader houses six cartridges in the magazine. DDS-3 tape allows 12
GB of uncompressed data to be stored on 125m DDS-3 Tapes. It ensures
backward compatibility in reading and writing existing DDS tapes. The
sustained data rate on uncompressed data tape is 1 MBPS.
Support Information
The A3716A is a Single-Ended SCSI-2 Device. The A3716A is supported
on MPE/iX Release 6.0.
NOTE The A3716A is NOT supported on MPE/iX 5.0, and there are currently
no plans for 5.0 Support of this device.
Configuration
A3716A is supported only on MPE/iX NIO platform. It is not supported
on MPE/iX CIO platform. A3716A can be configured on single-ended
NIO SCSI card. The autoloader option switch settings should be set to 6
(Stacker mode). Other mode settings are NOT supported.
Configuration Example
On an NIO machine, Path 52 is configured as follows:
io>lp 52
PATH: 52 LDEV:
ID: A1703-60003-SCSI TYPE: DA
PMGR: SCSI_DAM PMGRPRI: 6
LMGR: MAXIOS: 0
If the SCSI ID of the device is 3, and path 52.3 is not configured:
io>addpath path=52.3 id=pseudo
io>ad ldev=31 path=52.3.0 id=hpc1557A