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Special Hardware Support

CA VM:Tape supports the following tape drives and automated robotic mounters that reduce the manual intervention required to mount tapes.

• IBM 3480 Cartridge Drive and Automated Cartridge Loader
• IBM 3490E Cartridge Drive
• IBM 3590, 3590E, and 3590H Cartridge drives
• IBM 3592, 3592-E05, and 3592-E06 Cartridge Drives
• IBM 3494 and 3495 Tape Library Data Server. See Appendix D
• SUTMYN (Memorex Telex) Automated Tape Library. See Appendix B
• StorageTek 9840, 9840B, 9840C, and 9840D Cartridge drives
• StorageTek 9940, 9940B Cartridge Drives
• StorageTek T10000 and T10000B Cartridge Drives
• StorageTek Redwood SD-3 Helical Scan Cartridge Subsystem
• StorageTek Nearline Automated Cartridge System. See Appendix C

Note: The term automated robotic mounter (ARM) is used throughout this document to generically refer to any of the automated tape robot products supported by CA VM:Tape.