I'm having a problem using, or configuring a tape drive under Linux/390. Summary...
I logon on the guest machine. I attach a tape drive to it as 181 (this drive is a MP3000 emulated tape drive. I use this as it is easier than tieing up a real tape drive for testing.) I IPL 150 and bring up Linux. I issue: insmod tape390 tape=181 lsmod shows tape390 module is loaded. df doesn't show anything about a tape drive. mount doesn't show anything about a tape drive. In the /dev directory, there is tap0, tap1 and tap2 files. The "mt" command doesn't seem to know that I have a tape drive. Of course, tar, doesn't know about the tape drive either. So, I guess there is something else that I need to configure. The PDF on the Suse CD doesn't really give me much info. (Well, more likely, it has all the info needed, but I don't recognize or comprehend it <G>) There seems to be very little info on how to use tape drives. Can I do a "cp" to copy to a tape drive? I think "tar" will copy to a tape drive. Thanks for any insight Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
