IBM 3590 - Manual (Page 17)

Summary of Changes
This release includes information on the following product enhancements.
Fourteenth Edition
This edition introduces capacity and performance enhancements and new
FICON cable options for the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Controller 3590
Model A60, as well as the IBM TotalStorage name brand.
Thirteenth Edition
This edition introduces FICON shortwave and 3590 Fibre Channel drive
attachment with a 3590 IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Controller Model
A60. The Fibre Channel drive attachment provides for up to 12 Fibre attached
E1x drives or up to eight SCSI attached drives to an IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Tape Controller Model A60. It also provides information on new
SCSI multi-frame attachment for the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape
Controller Model A60 to A14, C10, and stand-alone rack environments.
Twelfth Edition
This edition provides corrections to “Sun Environment Attachment Check” on
page 108 and “Windows NT and Windows 2000 Environment Attachment
Check” on page 109protocol. Edition eleven change designations are retained
with vertical sidebars.
Eleventh Edition
This edition introduces Multiframe Support on the 3590 C12 and C14
Silo-Compatible Frame. Because this feature doubles the number of drives
attachable to a IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Controller Model A60, you
can now support up to eight IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drives 3590s
from a single Model C10 frame using Multiframe attachment.
Also, this edition introduces two ESCON attachments supported on each
Model A60 control unit in StorageTek
® Silo, standalone, and IBM
TotalStorage ™ Enterprise Automated Tape Library (3494) solutions.
The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 with Fibre Channel is now
attachable in Sun, Windows NT
® , and Windows 2000 environments.
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