September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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Chapter 23. Backup and restore 467
23.2 Tape support under Linux for zSeries and S/390
The use of S/390 and zSeries tape hardware is still in the early stages of
development and therefore is not currently integrated into any GA Linux
distributions. The Version 6.5 “beta” of Turbolinux does include the tape driver,
but the /dev files are not included and must be created as documented in this
section.
Documentation for the tape driver was found in the 2.2 kernel document LINUX
for S/390 Device Drivers and Installation. It is on the Web at:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/docu/l390dd03.pdf
At the start of this document is the warning:
“This driver is considered to be BETA.Do NOT use it in production
environments. ...
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