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Chapter 10. Tape usage
FLEX-ES provides three general ways to use S/390 tape devices. These are through:
Channel-attached tapes, using parallel or ESCON® channels to connect to “real” S/390
tape drives.
SCSI-attached drives that are used to emulate 3420, 3480, or 3490E drives, as
appropriate for the physical characteristics of the hardware. (Other IBM drive tapes are
also emulated, but these are the three major families of drives.)
Linux files that are used to emulate tape drives. Three formats are supported: FakeTape,
AWSTAPE, and OMA.
This chapter discusses various aspects of tape usage ...