On Wednesday 08 October 2003 19:44, Ferguson, Neale wrote:
> We were able to drive the 3590 using both the standard open source st
> module as well as the IBM supplied IBMtape. The latter gives you control a
> lot of the internal functions of the device including the cartridge loader.
> We never used the developerworks supplied beast. I wonder if they are, in
> fact, one in the same.
The tape_3590_mod.o from developerworks is for channel-attached tapes,
not for scsi tapes and is related to the 3480/3490 driver in Linux.
The IBMtape driver is a clean-room reimplementation of the linux 'st'
driver with added support for TotalStorage and Ultrium devices.
Arnd <><
