Since you are using IBM LTO drives, you would be using the ibm "lin_tape"
drivers instead of the TSM drivers.
Check out the manual here:
ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/devdrvr/Doc/
IBM_Tape_Driver_IUG.pdf

Under the linux section, it has the device names you should use.   Plenty
of other information as well.


Regards,
Shawn
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Hello all,
I am struggling a bit trying to find a way to see tape and library devices
as easily as you can in AIX so I can add a library and drives to a TSM
instance I'm trying to get up on Linux. On the Linux  box I built I
loaded, Redhat5, TSM 6.1.1.1 and the IBM drivers and it looks like that
went ok. EMC has been little help so far and I'm quite disappointed in the
knowledge transfer so far in getting this VTL up and running on TSM.

We defined IBM LTO3 drives in the library on the VTL. I have looked at a
few logs I've found and I think I see everything discovered as it  should.
/proc/scsi/scsi shows LUN's for the Library and drives on 2 seperate
cards. The 2 fiber cards have the library and 10 drives on one port and
the other port has 10 drives. I can't however figure out the path to these
devices the same way AIX gives them to you with the lsdev command. I don't
know if documentation is scarce or if I'm just looking inthe wrong places.
in /dev I see some IBMtape files and a changer file but not an IBMchanger
file.Maybe that's because I'm not suposed to with this scsi library but
again, I can't tell.

Is there anyone running Linux with  a VTL or other similar library that
can help me with some commands, logs to look at, library and tape path
definitions or any other things to look at that might help me?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Geoff Gill



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