Right now, it's a manual process (you reconfigure the tape drive via the HW console or EMIF). If you have VM, you get RMM on VM to handle getting the drive, and you write a little socket app to accept requests on behalf of the Linux guest and attach the tape drive to the right guest, coupled with a small Perl script on the Linux guest to generate requests and do the right Linux stuff to get the tape device updated.
In LPAR, obviously, you can't do that. You can guess how we do it...8-) -- db > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > David Sanchez Carmona > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sharing tapes > > > Hello: Do you know if it's possible to share a tape drive > between OS/390 > and a Linux image on an LPAR ? If it's not possible, how are > you driving > this ? > > Thanks for any help. >
