On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:29 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 9:33 AM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hall, Ken > (GTI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We just went through this. > > > > First, you need the lin_tape package from IBM. That has the > > device-specific drivers for the tape drives. You might have to find the > > source RPM and rebuild it to get a version that matches your kernel. > > This doesn't sound right to me. What distribution are you running? > > > Mark Post
For RHEL 4, there are tape modules already built in: # ls /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/char/*tape* /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/char/tape_34xx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/char/tape_class.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/char/tape.ko # modinfo tape_34xx filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/char/tape_34xx.ko license: GPL description: Linux on zSeries channel attached 3480 tape device driver ($Revision: 1.21 $) author: (C) 2001-2002 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH alias: ccw:t3490m*dt3490dm00* alias: ccw:t3480m*dt3480dm00* depends: tape vermagic: 2.6.9-42.EL SMP gcc-3.4 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
