Oops, I forgot about that one, Denys. You did tell me that at one time.
But wasn't it several thousand dollars, or is my memory failing again?
John Lee
At 01:42 PM 11/20/03 -0600, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>John is incorrect. Hicomp had a solution to drive the robotic devices
>on the MPE (and many other) systems. It was first made available in
>1999. I do not know the current status of the product as I left the
>company some months ago.
>
>I have heard of other vendors doing this, but have never seen anything
>else. This does not mean it does not exist, it simply means I have not
>seen it.
>
>And indeed, yes, I could write a program to drive the robot, but I do
>not believe it is worth the effort as EOS is now firmly in the rearview
>mirror.
>
>Denys
>
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>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] More tape drives
>
>Michael-
>
>MPE has no driver or software to control the robotics of a library. It
>will see the drives as logical devices, and I've even gotten one to
>write
>to the drive, but you can't control the robotics, so it's not a library
>anymore. Now I see in your discussion with Denys that maybe you can
>write
>your own driver for it. I've never tried it. If anyone can do it, it's
>no
>doubt Denys! Will the end results be worth the effort???...you may be
>the
>one telling us that in the near future. I don't know anyone who's tried
>it.
>
>As far as HP "supporting" it, no they won't...but as you say, it doesn't
>matter in your case. Your third party support provider will support it,
>I
>would guess. Or at least we would.
>
>John Lee
>
>
>
>
>
>At 12:43 PM 11/20/03 -0600, Michael Anderson wrote:
>>John,
>>I'm not sure what you mean when you say "HP 3000s do not support
>>libraries". Do you mean that nobody has ever written software to drive
>a
>>tape library on M.P.E?
>>
>> If you were to say HP doesn't support this, I'd say that's not a
>>problem.
>>Or if you were to say M.P.E has no way to address this type of device,
>>then I'd say okay, that could be a problem.
>>
>> I could be wrong, but I don't think I'd have a support problem, only
>>because I don't use HP for hardware or software support.
>>
>>As far as the 3000 not supporting it, I think it a question of what are
>>the requirements to connect it to the 3000, and be able to use it, and
>>will the end results be worth the effort?
>>
>>Just my opnion.
>>Michael.
>>
>>
>>>>> John Lee <[log in to unmask]> 11/20/03 11:07AM >>>
>>Michael-
>>
>>HP 3000s do not support libraries.
>>
>>John Lee
>>Vaske Compuer Solutions
>>
>>At 10:11 AM 11/20/03 -0600, Michael Anderson wrote:
>>>What is needed to connect a Dell PowerVault 130T DLT Tape Library
>>(maybe
>>>made by Quantum) to a HP3000/979?
>>>
>>>This machine is running M.P.E 6.0 pp2
>>>It's already got a DLT7000 drive.
>>>
>>>PowerVault is on it's way to FA, unless I can use it on our M.P.E
>>box.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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