LTO Tape on OpenVMS

[BR737443]

Anybody using LTO tapes for backup on ALpha Openvms systems? Quickspecs doesn't mention any explicit support for LTO on the DS25, but that may be out of date.

[CA984331]

Hi,

on this page you see a compatibility matrix for lto drives.
The ultrium is compatible with open vms.

greetings,

Michael

[CA984331]

Oops,

here it is:
http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/compatibility/tapebackup/Alpha/index.html

Michael

[BR768524]

We use Ultrium-460 drives, in an ESL712-E library connected to a San, running fine on OpenVMS V7.3-1 (ECO's current)

We see an average throughput of about 90Mb/sec, depending on the source disk layout.

Magtape $2$MGA0: (xxxxxx), device type HP Ultrium 2-SCSI, is online, allocated,
record-oriented device, file-oriented device, available to cluster, error
logging is enabled, controller supports compaction (compaction enabled),
device supports fastskip (per_io).

Error count 0 Operations completed 42987025
Owner process "" Owner UIC
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 512
WWID 02000008:5006-0B00-0028-BCAF
Density default Format Normal-11

Device is allocated on node xxxxxx.
Allocation class 2

Volume status: no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, odd parity.