Administrator's Guide

Appendix B. Supported Devices and Device Configuration Worksheets

ADSM supports a wide range of devices:

Disk devices

ADSM supports any disk storage device supported by the operating system.

Tape devices

Table 23 shows the tape drives supported by ADSM. Table 24 shows the libraries supported by ADSM, either through the ADSM device driver or the IBM device driver (Atape) that ships with certain IBM tape drives.

Optical devices

Table 23 shows the optical drives supported by ADSM. Table 24 show the libraries supported by ADSM.

Other devices

ADSM may be able to use devices that are supported by an AIX device driver. These devices are defined to ADSM using the device type of GENERICTAPE.

The devices that ADSM supports may change. For current information about supported devices:

• Check with IBM or your authorized reseller

• Call the IBM Information Support Center at 1-800-IBM-3333 and ask for STAR 20

• Visit the ADSM page on the World Wide Web at this address:

  http://www.ibm.com/storage/adsm