Near as we can tell, tape_3590 drivers are for FICON attached drives, and aren't actually supported anymore. If you poke around the IBM web pages, they tell you to switch to the lin_tape drivers, and FCP attached tape. We've been trying to set up TSM server on zLinux, and that's the only supported configuration.
If someone has different information, I'd love to hear it. We couldn't find ANY clear explanation of exactly what was supported by tape_3590, except in a German Powerpoint presentation, where they alluded to FICON. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives I am RHEL 4.4 here is a modinfo for tape_34xx and also zfcp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modinfo zfcp filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp.ko parm: loglevel:log levels, 8 nibbles: FC ERP QDIO CIO Config FSF SCSI Other, levels: 0=none 1=normal 2=devel 3=trace parm: device:specify initial device license: GPL description: FCP (SCSI over Fibre Channel) HBA driver for IBM eServer zSeries author: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Peschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raimund Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Taphorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aron Zeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH alias: ccw:t1731m03dt1732dm04* alias: ccw:t1731m03dt1732dm03* depends: qdio,scsi_mod,scsi_transport_fc vermagic: 2.6.9-42.EL SMP gcc-3.4 [ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Hinson Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:45 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------- This message w/attachments (message) may be privileged, confidential or proprietary, and if you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender, do not use or share it and delete it. 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