Absolutely, you can hang more than one DDS drive off a single scsi card. We
have four (3xDDSII and 1xDDSIII) connected to a single scsi channel and
throughput is just fine.

John Burke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Werth [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Turbostore question
>
>
> Rick Clark <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>
> > Doug writes.....
> >
> > > <<stuff snipped>>
> >
> > > You can also run the backup to the tapes in parallel, writing
> > > to both tapes
> > > simultaneously, but it needlessly introduces complexity to
> > > restoring files,
> > > unless backup performance is a serious issue for you.
> >
> > If I remember correctly this is not a good idea if the two
> tape drives are
> > on the same io card.....
>
> For DLT drives that's true. For DDS drives you should be able
> to hang 3 or 4
> of them from the same channel without a problem.
>
> Doug.
>
> Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
> [log in to unmask]                               Cincinnati, Ohio
>