Tape drives and tapes
Starting with zPDT GA10, general SCSI tape drives are no longer supported. Only Fibre-connected 3590 drives are supported. However, the awsscsi device manager from earlier zPDT releases continues to be distributed, as-is. You can continue to use it, but IBM cannot address problems with general SCSI tape drives. The awstape device manager remains a standard part of zPDT
14.1 zPDT 359x Tape Support
ITC1 has worked with zPDT development by testing changes to the awsscsi device manager that are designed to more fully support FCP ...

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