We have z/800 OS/390 R2.10. I want to be able to use a tape drive from Linux LPAR (SuSE 8). What I hear is that if we do that, then the entire silo will be allocated to Linux LPAR, leaving nothing for OS/390.
Is there a way to share the silo between the two LPARs? Has anyone written a customized device driver for this? All I want to do is to be able to use the mainframe tape drive for backup.
