Ken Sletten writes

After Denys said:

> One can indeed have a DLT4000 SE-SCSI on a 3000.  Indeed
> over the years, several people have reported that you
> can even boot from a DLT4000 drive, even though this is
> not officially supported.

Gilles continued:

>>   Has anyone ever successfully updated from a DLT4000?
>
> No. But, according to the HPe3000 Business Servers
> Configuration Guide, March 2000 edition, page 4-111,
> only the SE DLT4000 tape drive (as opposed to any
> FWSCSI-connected DLT drive) enjoys DLT boot support.

We have had two external SE DLT4000 drives on our 959
for years;  have done several system update and patch
cycles using one of them as the boot device;  never had
any kind of hardware or software problem with the DLTs...
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Yes you can boot from the DLT, but HP doesn't have a media option to deliver
O/S on DLT.  So you'll need a DDS anyway to upgrade your O/S to a new
release.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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