Here is what I have done to get tape_34xx to work with SLES9: modprobe tape_34xx chccwdev -e 0.0.addr (where addr is the address of the drive) This command puts the drive 'online' to Linux. The -d option takes it 'offline' to Linux.
You should see a message in the syslog displayed via the dmesg command when the driver is loaded and the drive is online. You can look through the /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/tape_34xx directory structure for various information, but most if not all is displayed via the lstape command. The Device Drivers manual for 2.6 has most of this info. I've been using this on SLES 9 SP1 for about a month with no problems. I am using 3490 mode drives. Scott Ledbetter StorageTek -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: tape_34xx All my mainframe tape documentation refers to tape390 and also, is prior to SLES9 (which changed a lot of the I/O stuff with autodetect). Has there been any newer documentation published for 3590 tape drives and SLES9 (udev support)? I see the presentation "exploiting udev in SLES9 and RHEL4", but it doen't mention tapes. After doing the: rpm -Fvh s390_oco-2.6.5-7.145.s390.rpm looked like it worked. But I expected some documentation with it. lsmod shows: tape_34xx size 31236 used by 0 tape size 66328 used by 1 tape_34xx tape_class size 12548 used by 1 tape But anytime I try using it, it fails mt -f /dev/rtibm0 rewind mt: /dev/rtibm0: No such device or address but a dir /dev/rt* shows: crw-r--r-- 1 root toot 254, 0 Jun 3 16:31 rtibm0 looks there to me. BTW where I have tape operational on SLES7 and SLES8, this is the first attempt on SLES9 with SP1. Thanks for any pointers Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
