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Attaching Tape Drives

Use the CA VM:Tape ALLOCATE command, rather than the CP ATTACH command, to attach a tape drive to a user ID without mounting a volume. The ALLOCATE command is preferred because if no drives are currently available, the allocation queues until a drive is free. Using CP ATTACH causes CA VM:Tape to behave unpredictably.

Note: For more information about the ALLOCATE command, see the Command Reference Guide.

This section provides information about using various tape drives CA VM:Tape supports. The following table indicates read/write capabilities of those tape drives.

Density Support for Various Device Types

Drive

Densities

Media

 

Verify

Read

Write

 

3420

1600, 6250

1600, 6250

1600, 6250

REEL

3480

36TRack
18TRack

18TRack

18TRack

CARTridge

3490E

36TRack
18TRack

36TRack, 18TRack

36TRack

CARTridge, ENHAnced

3590

128TRack

128TRack

128TRack

HPT, XPT

3590E

256TRack
128TRack

256TRack
128TRack

256TRack

HPT, XPT

3590H

384TRack
256TRack
128TRack

384TRack
256TRack
128TRack

384Track

HPT, XPT

3592

512TRack

512TRack

512Track

ETC, ETCS

3592E

896TRack

896TRack

896Track

ETC

3592EE

896enc

896enc

896enc

EETC, EETCM, EETCX

3592E6

1152enc

1152enc

1152enc

EETC, EETCM, EETCX

9840
9840B

20GB

20GB

20GB

STK1R

9840C

60GB
20GB

60GB
20GB

60GB

STK1R

9840D

75GB
60GB
20GB

75GB
60GB
20GB

75GB

STK1R

9940

60GB

60GB

60GB

STK2P

9940B

200GB
60GB

200GB
60GB

200GB

STK2P

T10000

T10K

T10K

T10K

T1, TS

T10000B

T10KB

T10KB

T10KB

T1, TS

Redwood D-D3

12.5GB
25GB
50GB

12.5GB
25GB
50GB

12.5GB

DD3

Redwood D-D3

25GB
12.5GB
50GB

25GB
12.5GB
50GB

25GB

DD3

Redwood D-D3

50GB
12.5GB
25GB

50GB
12.5GB
25GB

50GB

DD3