On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Michael Green wrote:

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IBMtape has been replaced by lin_tape, which can be found here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.

According to the README file at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/ ,
lin_tape is the "Linux IBM Tape Device Driver", and
IBMtape is the "IBM Linux Tape Device Driver".
How could customers possibly be confused?  ;-)

   Richard Sims  at Boston University
     where we tend to give things distinctive names