Folks,

IBMtape has been replaced by lin_tape, which can be found here
<ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/RHEL4/Latest/>
lin_tape is open source driver, but it's essentially the same driver
as it shares most of its code with IBMtape. Even the kernel module it
installs is still called IBMtape.ko.

HTH


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Skylar Thompson
<skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu> wrote:
> Johnny Lea wrote:
>  > Has anyone tried to install IBMtape with a kernel newer than 2.6.9-42?  
> I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.9-67.0.4 and can no longer get IBMtape to 
> install.  I can't find a IBMtape version newer than IBMtape-3.0.5-2.6.9-42.  
> Is that the latest?
>  >
>
>  I'm using IBMtape with 2.6.9-67.0.4. After flogging the RPM for a while,
>  I ended up just copying IBMtape.ko to
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/IBMtape.ko. You can
>  either take it out of the 2.6.9-42 modules tree, or run the IBMtape RPM
>  through rpm2cpio. After that run depmod, and you're good to go.
>
>  --
>  -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
>  -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
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>  -- University of Washington School of Medicine
>



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Warm regards,
Michael Green