Has anyone succesfully made Linux on 390 talk to a 3494 and place nice with
the resources or does it have to own a drive.
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Dave wrote:
>Methinks the Right Thing To Do would be to add function to "mt" to allow
it
>to reserve a drive (eg, "mt reserve /dev/st0") when a application wants
on,
>and provide a release function when you're done with it (eg "mt release
>/dev/st0"). That would be generic enough to handle most of the Intel cases
>as well, but would suit us nicely(*).
Since its really a zSeries notion, it seems to me putting the
assign/unassign in "insmod/delmod tape390" initialization somehow would be
more appropriate. Also, the way the tapes have been implemented (by dev
node), there is no mount involved. Mounts in linux don't really mount
devices - they mount file systems.
Regards, Jim
Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs
t/l 543-4021, 408-463-4021, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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