Ira, The "mt" command, using the ntibm? and rtibm? device names. Then you just use tar, afio, cpio, whatever to write to the device name.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Ira Hochner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3480/3490 tape access on linux 2.4 kernel greetings all, when i do a modprobe tape390 on the new version of SuSe i see it has tape support and it even knows that there are two tape drives available in the LPAR. How do i get to access and use these drives? TIA Ira Hochner Mainline Information Systems (954) 575-0413 (office) (954) 294-1719 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email)