>>> On 10/18/2011 at 05:41 AM, Steffen Maier <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Since you (had to) build the lin_tape device driver kernel module > yourself it is formally flagged as "not supported" by SLES11 and > therefore modprobe denies loading the module. This is indicated by above > message for which you can find more details in: > > http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7002793&sliceId=1 > http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/s390x/SUSE-SLES/11-SP1/#KernelModul > es > > Unfortunately, I don't know how this case is handled with SLES regarding > distribution support for SCSI tape drives. > Hoping for Mark Post to step in here.
We do provide native support for SCSI tapes in the distribution. I don't know what lin_tape provides over and above that. If nothing additional is needed, then just don't use it and use the native support. If the OP _has_ to use lin_tape for whatever reason, he needs to understand that running with a tainted kernel _might_ put some additional burden on him in the future. If a support request is opened, and the lin_tape kernel module is suspected of interfering with the normal operation of the system, then the problem will have to be recreated without the lin_tape module loaded. I have run into this before. In one situation a customer was using a 3rd party kernel module that resulted in it looking as though nearly all of /sys was missing. If that module wasn't loaded, everything was fine, so the customer had to go talk to that 3rd party vendor about the problem. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
