Installing a dat drive on p570 1

[J1gh2]

Hi Folks

I inherited two p570s but none of them has an external tape drive for system backups. (The only backups are to TSM but there are no bootable system backups). I ordered a 4mm dat (7206 model 336 tape) drive and I am wondering how to install (and configure) it so that it is available to all the lpars (8 across the two frames) so that I can change tape to do a mksysb for each lpar.

Would appreciate your help. Thanks

 

[Gloups]

You cant see it from all your lpars at the same time.

You have to use dlpar function to move one of your SCSI controlers Bus 3 T12 for example from one partition to another to move your DAT drive

 

[J1gh2]

Ok. That`s great. Thanks very much Gloups