Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Mike Hammock: > They are running SLES 10 SP1 in an instance on a FLEX-ES system. (Think of > this as running in an LPAR on a normal system. That is, no zVM.) > They have an ESCON connected 3590 that they can use from the Linux system > with no problem, but apparently there is a 'special' device driver supplied > for TSM 5.5 and when they install it, the driver apparently does not 'see' > the tape device. They found a statement that TSM only supports "Fiber > attached tape devices", but we're not sure if "Fiber" in this context > includes ESCON or not and I can't see why TSM should care as long as Linux > is happy with the device. > > Does anyone else have any experience with this combination (TSM 5.5 on SLES > 10 with ESCON 3590) or possibly have any suggestions??
As far as I know, TSM for Linux only supports FCP-attached (scsi) tapes. Channel attachement like FICON or ESCON are not supported. Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
