Hi Davina.

One last piece of advice.  Check the NetWorker Hardware compatibility guide.
 As of a few months ago there was a footnote statement to the effect that
IBM tape drivers were NOT supported on Linux.  Under certain circumstatnces
may even cause tapes to be overwritten.

Cheers!

Brendan Sandes

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Davina Treiber
<Davina.Treiber AT peevro.co DOT uk>wrote:

> This is a question to those of you using Linux machines as a server or
> storage node.
>
> What is the best choice of driver to use when connecting IBM LTO tape
> drives to a Linux server? Is it best to install the IBMtape drivers, or
> stick with the native st drivers.
>
> How well does persistent binding/naming work with the Linux version of the
> IBMtape driver?
>
> If using the native st driver, is it necessary to customise stinit.def?
> Does it in fact run stinit at the right time?
>
> What are your experiences with LTO tapes on Linux?
>
> To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and 
> type
> "signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to
> networker-request AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with 
> this
> list. You can access the archives at
> http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
> via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER
>

To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and 
type "signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to 
networker-request AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with this 
list. You can access the archives at 
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER