David Boyes wrote: Don't know either. AFAIK, you can't attach a VTS to scsi attached tape drives. So, backing into it, if I can control VTS operations with mtlib and I can't use scsi attached tape drives, it must work with channel attached drives.
Anyway, I have a meeting with IBM's VTS expert this afternoon. I'm trying to get suffiently "interesting" questions for him to justify his flight in. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
Depends on how the library is connected. You can't use the channel-attached variety with mtlib, afaik. -----Original Message----- From: "Tom Duerbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: 10/4/06 4:15 PM Subject: Linux and IBM Virtual Tape System Somewhere along the line, I got the impression that Linux (SUSE) couldn't support an IBM VTS. I think it can read and write the tapes, but couldn't control the VTS for mounting tapes. However, the following seems to say otherwise: "The mtlib program provides an interface to the physical tape drives and volumes within a 3494 Tape Library and also to the virtual tape drives and volumes within an attached IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Server (VTS). This is from the "IBM TotalStorage and System Storage Tape Device Drivers: Installation and User's Guide". April 2006 Edition. That implies to me that I can have zLinux use the VTS for tape storage. I do understand that many applications can only use scsi attached tape drives, which the VTS isn't, but it can be used for "some" tape purposes. Is that right? Or is there still, other, more severe restrictions that make the VTS really unacceptable to use in a zLinux system? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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