I asked this back in 2009 and the response was to install the mt_st RPM. The problem was, how to enable 3590 tape hardware compression from Linux. Now, I'm on SUSE 11 SP 1 for this run.
Well, I install the mt_st RPM. When I try to do: linux72:/VSEVTAPE/archive # mt -f /dev/ntibm0 compression mt: invalid argument `compression' for `tape operation' The current Device Drivers, Features, and Commands on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 manual only says to install the mt_st RPM. It doesn't say I have to do anything else. I tried setting the device offline and then online. mt still failed. linux72:/VSEVTAPE/archive # mt -V mt (GNU cpio 2.9) This result is the same as before I installed the RPM. Shouldn't the version be something else? When I go back into Yast, it does show the mp_st package is installed. I'm doing something wrong....imagine that...but what? 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
