We ran it for a while on SLES 10. There was a "tainted" message there too at boot time, but no special action like SLES 11 seems to require.
We needed it to drive an IBM ATL. There is no native Linux support for that. Just know that if you do have a problem and Novell is providing your support, you *may* have to pull it out and recreate the problem without it. Probably pretty unlikely, but just be aware. You also have to rebuild the thing after each kernel update. Kind of a pain. Especially if you forget and it's not functional anymore :) Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lu GL Gao Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:52 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Install tape driver error on zlinux Let me explain the reason of installing tape driver is we are going to install Tivoli Storage Manager which will be the only tool to backup our systems. Our linux is newly installed which was provided by IBM. Nobody modified it, and even nobody begin to use it. I also downloaded tape driver from IBM storage support website. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
