Thanks to all who responded with such defintive info: much appreciated. FWIW, the reason we went with the IBM lin-tape driver was that we'd had some old kit that had needed the driver, so as to stand up the "/dev/IBMtape*" devices and so it was suggested that I'd need it, when setting up this latest hardware incarnation.
Seems a bit of shame, given all the hoops I have been jumping through, so as to get/keep the IBM lin-tape driver working (IBM support told me, at one point, that I shouldn't even need to recompile it for each new kernel, which turned out to be a little wide of the mark, given that they bake the kernel version into the RPM payload!), that I could have saved myself interacting with the IBM "support portal". Thanks again to Arno, Rob, Bill and Eric _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
