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Implementing Support for StorageTek Redwood

The Redwood device supports cartridge capacities of 10GB, 25GB, or 50GB of uncompressed data. The cartridge used by this device has the same size and same characteristics as existing 3480/3490 cartridges, with two obvious differences:

  1. The actual tape exits the cartridge from a different corner
  2. To prevent these cartridges from being mounted into a true 3480/3490 device, a notch in the corner of each cartridge is flipped on

CA Disk acknowledges this device in quite the same way it did 3420 and 3480 devices, through an esoteric unitname. Once a unique esoteric is assigned to your Redwood devices, CA Disk begins storing this name in the ARCHVOL records. This allows CA Disk to dynamically request the proper device type during RESTORE, RECOVER, XCOPY, or MERGE processing.

For an overview description on the capacities the Redwood device has, see StorageTek Redwood Device in the User Guide.