Thanks Christian...
That's what we were afraid of, but were not sure...
They are trying to do a proof of concept with their existing equipment
(ESCON 3590) and I don't believe there is any way to connect a true FCP or
SCSI tape device to the Linux system on a FLEX-ES system, so I suspect they
are out of luck for now...
I assume that running zVM in the instance/LPAR and attaching the tape
device to a Linux guest would not make any difference, correct?
If anyone else has any ideas or suggestions, we'd be glad to listen..
Thanks
C. M. (Mike) Hammock
Sr. Technical Support
zFrame & IBM zSeries Solutions
(404) 643-3258
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Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Mike Hammock:
> They are running SLES 10 SP1 in an instance on a FLEX-ES system. (Think
of
> this as running in an LPAR on a normal system. That is, no zVM.)
> They have an ESCON connected 3590 that they can use from the Linux system
> with no problem, but apparently there is a 'special' device driver
supplied
> for TSM 5.5 and when they install it, the driver apparently does not
'see'
> the tape device. They found a statement that TSM only supports "Fiber
> attached tape devices", but we're not sure if "Fiber" in this context
> includes ESCON or not and I can't see why TSM should care as long as
Linux
> is happy with the device.
>
> Does anyone else have any experience with this combination (TSM 5.5 on
SLES
> 10 with ESCON 3590) or possibly have any suggestions??
As far as I know, TSM for Linux only supports FCP-attached (scsi) tapes.
Channel attachement like FICON or ESCON are not supported.
Christian
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