George,

Similarly, IBM LTO-4 works fine on Linux with IBM tape drivers, with no
problems.   And IBM LTO-1 and so forth, in the past.

There's also an IBM redbook on how to setup NetWorker with IBMtape, I believe.

You have to disable NetWorker CDI.

It's true that with NetWorker CDI, you may run into problems, but you can
easily

        touch /nsr/debug/cdidisable

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Date:    Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:26:21 -0400
From:    George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
Subject: Re: LTO tape drives on Linux

David Stes wrote:
> Brendan,
> 
> In practice the IBMtape and lin_tape drivers work fine,
> and in fact, our users report that driver works better than Linux st,
> although that IBM says the drives work with both st and lin_tape
> 

We've been using IBM LTO-3 tape drives on Linux with no problems. I only 
remember reading about not using the IBM driver. Perhaps it's fine, but 
we've always used the native Linux tape drivers.

George

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