When you say the current driver "appears to only support" 34x0 tapes, did you determine that by experimenting? I looked at the code and didn't see anything referring to 3420, but I don't have any 3420 drives to test and see if it works anyway.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hodge, Robert L Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux for zSeries 3420 Tape driver Is there a Linux for zSeries 3420 tape driver? We have an occasional requirement to copy reels to cartridges. z/VM 5.1 is dropping support 3420 tape drives. I'm investigating whether 3420 tape drives could be attached to a Linux guest as unsupported VM devices, and then use Linux commands to copy the tape reels to tape cartridges. The IBM Linux tape driver appears to only support 3480/3490 tape drives. My web searches for a 3420 tape driver have failed. Robert Hodge ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
