On 10/18/2011 09:14 AM, Lu GL Gao wrote:
Our linux is SUSE Enterprise Server 11 SP1 running on z/VM V5.4.
Our tape lib is TS3500, driver is 3592 E05.
(1) download tape driver from website of System Storage Interoperation
Center.
I downloaded 2 files. One is lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm, the other is
lin_taped-1.61.0-sles11.s390x.rpm.
(2) I'm sure that zfcp device driver is loaded into kernel, because we have
scsi disk connected through zfcp device driver.
(3) rpmbuild -rebuild lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm
This step produced lin_tape package
on /usr/src/packages/RPMS/s390x/lin_tape-1.61.0-1.s390x.rpm
(4) rpm -ivh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/s390x/lin_tape-1.61.0-1.s390x.rpm
This step produced below error:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:lin_tape ###########################################
[100%]
Starting lin_tape: FATAL: module
'/lib/modules/2.6.32.12-0.7-default/kernel/drivers/scsi/lin_tape.ko' is
unsupported
Use --allow-unsupported or set allow_unsupported_modules to 1 in
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules
Since you (had to) build the lin_tape device driver kernel module
yourself it is formally flagged as "not supported" by SLES11 and
therefore modprobe denies loading the module. This is indicated by above
message for which you can find more details in:
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7002793&sliceId=1
http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/s390x/SUSE-SLES/11-SP1/#KernelModules
Unfortunately, I don't know how this case is handled with SLES regarding
distribution support for SCSI tape drives.
Hoping for Mark Post to step in here.
Steffen
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