When I use 3590 tapes here, this is what I do: vary on 5b1 (vary it off first on the other lpar) attach 5b1 LINUX72
>From Linux: lstape chccwdev -e 0.0.05b1 (set drive online) lstape mtst -f /dev/ntibm0 rewind mtst -f /dev/ntibm0 fsf 1 mtst -f /dev/ntibm0 compression 1 However, you have to install the mtst tar file (part of the IBM code) to use the mtst command. Without mtst, I don't believe that you can turn on/off compression on your drives. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> 11/5/2011 4:50 PM >>> Hello, I have RHEL 6 Linux running as a guest under z/VM 6.1 on our z10 BC. It has the following 3590-H tape drives assigned in the z/VM directory: DEDICATE 1500 1500 MULTIUSER DEDICATE 1501 1501 MULTIUSER DEDICATE 1502 1502 MULTIUSER DEDICATE 1503 1503 MULTIUSER A query command shows the drives are attached to the Linux guest: q 1500-1503 TAPE 1500 ATTACHED TO ZLINUX1 1500 R/W NOASSIGN MULTIUSER TAPE 1501 ATTACHED TO ZLINUX1 1501 R/W NOASSIGN MULTIUSER TAPE 1502 ATTACHED TO ZLINUX1 1502 R/W NOASSIGN MULTIUSER TAPE 1503 ATTACHED TO ZLINUX1 1503 R/W NOASSIGN MULTIUSER However, the lstape command shows no drives: FICON/ESCON tapes (found 0): TapeNo BusID CuType/Model DevType/Model BlkSize State Op MedState SCSI tape devices (found 0): Generic Device Target Vendor Model Type State I found the driver here: /lib/modules/2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.s390x/kernel/drivers/s390/char/tape_3590.ko What am I missing? How can I get Linux to recognize these tape drives? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/
