On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > If you're running under VM, and have VMTAPE in use, and have Neale's cpint package > installed and working, it seems to me you should be able to do something like > > hcp sm vmtape mount <volser> 181 > > and have VMTAPE (with STAM if your tape drives are EMIF'ed among multiple LPARs) > mount the tape, then > > insmod tape390 tape=181 > > and do something with /proc to make the 181 tape device active. At this point, you > should be able to work with the tape itself using tar or mt. > > to release the tape, you'd have to > > delmod tape390 > hcp detach 181. > > I can only see two problems with this approach: > (1) I think tape390 and cpint use the same major node numbers. You might have to > recompile one or the other to use a different major node number. > (2) I've never been able to get cpint to properly issue a CP DETACH command that > works. I may be doing something wrong. > > Anyone care to comment on this approach?
And it you subsequently want another tape drive? -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
