On 10/18/2011 09:51 PM, Mark Post wrote:
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.
Assuming you refer to the "st" SCSI tape driver by native support,
then multipathing comes to mind as additional feature of lin_tape.
Steffen
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