> 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
It does not. TSM doesn't understand channel-attached tape on Linux at all. FCP-only. Your 3590 is useless for this purpose. > Does anyone else have any experience with this combination (TSM 5.5 on > SLES > 10 with ESCON 3590) or possibly have any suggestions?? If you want a Linux-only solution, buy a FCP tape drive. Or install z/OS.e and use the z/OS TSM to drive your channel-attached tape. Those are the choices on offer from IBM. Since most people don't like those options much, you can also use the remote volume option of the VM TSM server to drive the actual tapes (since it DOES understand channel-attached tape), and configure the Linux TSM server to use the CMS server as the destination for the virtual volumes. Look at the docs for virtual volume support -- there are some limitations but you don't end up with an entire z/OS system just to do backups. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
