Re: ipl tape

[James Tison]

Sergey,

I don't have the source for tape390.o, but if it's modeled after SCSI tape
support, the minor device number should be 128+n for a non-rewinding
device, just 128 in your case. Minors between 0-127 all rewind.

--Jim--
James S. Tison
Senior Software Engineer
TPF Laboratory / Architecture
IBM Corporation
+1 203 486-2835 (voice/fax)
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                      Sergey Korzhevsky                                                
                                          
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11.03.2002 22:22:38 Linux on 390 Port ΞΑΠΙΣΑΜ(Α):

Thank you, Mark.

But I have one more question :)
I did next steps

1) insmod tape390 tape=290

Driver used major number 254. No devices in /dev

2) cd /dev; mknod ntibm0 c 254 0

3) tar -cvf /dev/ntibm0 some_file

Is this sequence  right?

It is working fine, but after file was writing, tape rewinded
automatically, and i can't write next file after first.








>Sergey,
>
>If you have the tape drivers for your system loaded, you should just be
able
>to copy the tape kernel, parm file, and initial ramdisk to the tape using
>either "dd" or just plain "cat" to the correct tape device in /dev.
>
>Mark Post