Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Martin, I had to change SYSFS into ATTR and now it's working. Thank you VERY much again for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Core Infra -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Martin Janosik Sent: vrijdag 23 december 2022 16:01 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Martin Janosik
Hi, /dev directory is dynamically built so it's not needed to create directory manually, it should get populated once you load kernel module > When you run the lin_tape kernel module, it creates special files in the /dev > directory Adding persistent naming + all stop/unload/load/start steps

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Martin! Thanks for the link! I've done some more searching online and I found some documentation about enabling the following option: options lin_tape alternate_pathing=1 So I created a /etc/modprobe.d/lin_tape.conf file and added this option to it, along with the persistent naming option:

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Martin Janosik
Hi Eric, I'm not sure it's possible to selectively remove /dev/IBMchangerX devices. I would follow https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ts4300-tape-library?topic=tape-taking-devices-offline-completing-maintenance to completely stop lintaped as it should remove all IBMtape/IBMchanger and then proceed

TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi guys, I'm connecting a TS4300 to my SP server. The library I defined contains 6 drive and I selected all drives as control path. This however creates six /dev/IBMchanger devices. So before I correct my mistake and update the library definition, I like to remove /dev/IBMchanger1 to 5 first.