And in the case of HP LTO drives, one uses the TSM device driver rather
than the HP native drivers.  But I'm sure that the link Richard pointed
to discusses that. 


Kelly J. Lipp
VP Manufacturing & CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
lipp AT storserver DOT com

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:37 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO Drivers for TSM

Dennis -

The TSM Support Page
  http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/
IBMTivoliStorageManager.html

contains a Supported Devices area, wherein requirements are enumerated,
including device drivers.

    Richard Sims

On May 16, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Dennis, Melburn W IT743 wrote:

> Recently our company ran a DR Test with a company called SunGard.  Our

> contract requested an automated tape library with LTO2 drives in order

> for us to execute our TSM portion of the disaster recovery.  In our 
> production environment we use IBM LTO2 drives.  When we got there we 
> found out that they had HP LTO2 drives, and so the drivers that we had

> brought with us in our DR tool kits would not work.  SunGard was able 
> to provide us the latest drivers from HP, but those seemed to not be 
> compatible with TSM, and the generic drivers that come bundled with 
> TSM did not work either.  TSM would recognize the drives as "GENERIC 
> TAPE"
> instead of LTO.  In the future we would like to be able to prevent 
> this in case of a real DR, and have a set of drivers that would work 
> with all major manufacturers of LTO.  What drivers for HP LTO drives 
> work with TSM, or for that matter any other manufacturer of LTO 
> besides IBM?
>
>
> Mel Dennis
> Systems Engineer - IT743
> Siemens Power Generation
> 4400 Alafaya Trail
> Orlando, FL 32826
> MC Q1-108
> Tel:  (407) 736-2360
> Win:  439-2360
> Fax: (407) 243-0260
> Email:  melburn.dennis AT siemens DOT com