FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
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

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:50:50PM -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: 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

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/5/2011 2:57 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:50:50PM -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: However, the lstape command shows no drives: Did you set those devices online? Something like `chccwdev -e 0.0.1500' might help. The 'MedState' column in the 'lstape' output will contain

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Richard Troth
You found the module, but is it loaded? modpobe tape-3590 Or look for it with 'lsmod | grep tape'. -- R;   Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 18:17, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 11/5/2011 2:57 PM, Philipp

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/5/2011 3:23 PM, Richard Troth wrote: You found the module, but is it loaded? modpobe tape-3590 Or look for it with 'lsmod | grep tape'. The module is most definitely NOT loaded. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/5/2011 3:28 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 11/5/2011 3:23 PM, Richard Troth wrote: You found the module, but is it loaded? modpobe tape-3590 Or look for it with 'lsmod | grep tape'. The module is most definitely NOT loaded. Modprobe loads the module without problems. lsmod then

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Christian Paro
Have you tries using the `cio_ignore` command to make sure the channels your tapes are attached to aren't blacklisted? For example: cio_ignore -r 1500 Your tape drives may currently be masked from being detected. For more info on cio_ignore, see What's new in RHEL 6 for Linux on System

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/5/2011 4:19 PM, Christian Paro wrote: Have you tries using the `cio_ignore` command to make sure the channels your tapes are attached to aren't blacklisted? For example: cio_ignore -r 1500 Your tape drives may currently be masked from being detected. For more info on cio_ignore, see