Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!thompson From: thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Cluster-wide tape drives Message-ID: <5448@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 9 Jul 88 12:31:31 GMT References: <8807081710.AA19233@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 14 In article <8807081710.AA19233@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RMALOUF@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU (Rob Malouf) writes: > Is there any way to make a non-HSC tape drive available to an entire >cluster? [stuff deleted] >... What have I missed? Thanks in advance. You haven't missed anything; it can't be done. I have seen all sorts of wierd and wonderful DCL procedures that attempt to access tape drives using DECnet, but they all have problems of one sort or another. You will have to wait for V5.?? (not V5.0) for DEC to put support for tape devices in the MSCP server. -steve