>The DAT message traffic has put me in the same situation.  I have not
     >heard back from my sales rep and decided to give the RC a call.  The
     >RC engineer indicated that he had attended a class at 'Legato' for
     >training on the DLTs and heard that support for the DLT7000 on the
     >HP3000 should be available by summer's end.  Not quite an official
     >announcement, just a glimmer of hope.

     >Can anyone else 'validate' this rumor?


     It was announced in the Spring '98 HP3000 Advisor and, should you not
     have a copy, can be found at:

     http://www.hp.com/ibpprogs/csy/advisor/spring98/news/news4.html

     Here's an excerpt:

     "Hewlett-Packard Company is offering four new products to achieve ever
      higher performance in managing HP 3000 storage: Legato's Storage
      Node, new Advanced DLT libraries, a new tape differential adapter and
      the QTM4500 DLT stacker. Legato's Storage Nodes greatly increase
      system manageability, availability, scalability and performance. HP's
      Advanced DLT7000 Library has high throughput and capacity. The new
      tape differential adapter works with both fast-wide and fast-narrow
      devices like the DLT7000 and DLT4000. The last of these storage
      enhancements new to the HP 3000 is the QTM4500 DLT stacker that
      increases capacity further with its five-cartridge content."


     Or go to www.hp.com/go/3000servers and link to the Advisor from there.

     Or go to www.hp.com/go/advisor.


     Jon Broz
     Hewlett-Packard


     "My opinions/comments...not HP's"