Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-09 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Everybody, Thanks for all of the good information that you've provided. I've answered many questions and roughed out an early-phase architecture that I'll begin to set up. From what I've learned, it appears I'll have: SLE 9.0 TSM 5.3 and appropriate drivers. Some number of new fiber channe

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-07 Thread Reiersgord, Lee W
PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK > A zOS managed Powderhorn library may have Fibre drives along with ESCON, > FICON and SCSI. True -- but a drive can be only one of the above at a time. A drive can only support one type of attachment, and if it

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-07 Thread David Boyes
> A zOS managed Powderhorn library may have Fibre drives along with ESCON, > FICON and SCSI. True -- but a drive can be only one of the above at a time. A drive can only support one type of attachment, and if it's FCP, it can't be accessed by ESCON/FICON. If you don't install FCP devices, then

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-07 Thread Reiersgord, Lee W
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK >> Don't blame STK. It won't work. TSM on Linux does not support non-SCSI >>tape at all. > In fact these drives are using, for

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-07 Thread David Boyes
>> Don't blame STK. It won't work. TSM on Linux does not support non-SCSI >>tape at all. > In fact these drives are using, for what I know, SCSI over FC and appear > to the operating system as SCSI tape devices. If you have FCP drives installed, then it will work, as you say. That's still prett

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-07 Thread MAYER Andreas
rs to access the tape devices. Andreas Mayer -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:53 PM Subject: Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK > Has anybody done this? I'm trying to configure our STK 9310 > powderhorn > robotics

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-06 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ledbetter, Scott E Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK Thanks for the info about TSM 5.3. I stand corrected. So many things to keep up with these days... Scott Ledbetter Sun Microsystems/StorageTek

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-06 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK Gresham EDT was needed at TSM 5.2, TSM 5.3 supports access to STK libraries via ACSLS/Library with code built into TSM. We have tested shared ACSLS library support for lanfree backups on zLinux in the past with success by using a library

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-06 Thread MAYER Andreas
. Define drives to TSM. Define PATH's to TSM. Define device class and storage pool to TSM. Define volumes to TSM. Andreas Mayer Telekom Austria -Original Message- From: Ledbetter, Scott E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:25 AM Subject: Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, an

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-06 Thread David Boyes
> Has anybody done this? I'm trying to configure our STK 9310 > powderhorn > robotics to work with TSM running under Suse LE 9. If you've down > this, I'd love to see some outline of where to start. STK support > hasn't been too helpful with this venture. Don't blame STK. It won't work. T

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-05 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MOEUR TIM C Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK Has anybody done this? I'm trying to configure our STK 9310 powderhorn robotics to work with TSM ru

Re: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-05 Thread Ledbetter, Scott E
MOEUR TIM C Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK Has anybody done this? I'm trying to configure our STK 9310 powderhorn robotics to work with TSM running under Suse LE 9. If you've down this, I'd love to see some o

z/Linux, TSM 5.3, and STK

2006-01-05 Thread MOEUR TIM C
Has anybody done this? I'm trying to configure our STK 9310 powderhorn robotics to work with TSM running under Suse LE 9. If you've down this, I'd love to see some outline of where to start. STK support hasn't been too helpful with this venture. Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -