On Wednesday, 06/11/2003 at 08:50 ZE2, Paul Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The UTS Global Tape Services Suite (TSS) for Linux/390 will > accomplish this task, specifically the Tape Management > Subsystem and Distributed Tape Subsystem products. > > Please see http://www.utsglobal.com/linuxprod.html for details. > > Feel free to contact me/us off-list if you require any further > information. > > As Mark Post mentioned earlier, Phil's SHARE presentation on > this subject is available at http://linuxvm.org/Present/
If the driver handles the assign/unassign in a reasonble way, then z/VM 4.3's shared tape support (CP ATTACH ... MULTIUSER...) allows multiple guests to share a tape drive without having to ATTACH/DETACH it. By "reasonable" I mean that drive assignment is done only for the duration of tape, not drive, usage. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
