Thank you for your response.  I found what I was looking for in Device Drivers and 
Installation Commands book.  It works.  I agree it is a little clunky, especially when 
needing multiple tapes....

I did notice that I had to "mknod /dev/ntibm0 c 254 0", "mknod /dev/rtibm0 c 254 0" 
and "mknod /dev/btibm0 b 254 0"  to get the examples to work.

Thanks,
Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
David Boyes
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Use of 3490 tape


Yes, but it's not very efficient. Check out
http://sinenomine.net/publications/presentations.php#2004 for my MVMUA
presentation on a way to make use of VM and/or z/OS-controlled tape w/o
having to attach the drives directly to the Linux system.

The approach in the presentation also allows non-VM guest systems to make
use of the capability.

-- db

David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates

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