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<p>Added categories and navbox</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:07, 30 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l64">Line 64:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 64:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See Also ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See Also ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Installing lin_tape driver: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installing-lintape-device-driver</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Installing lin_tape driver: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installing-lintape-device-driver</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Navbox Linux}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Linux]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:IBM]]</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wiki:diff:1.41:old-4839:rev-6358:php=table --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:18, 14 June 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>IBM tape devices are interfaced with the {{code|lin_tape}} kernel module.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>IBM tape devices are interfaced with the {{code|lin_tape}} <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">device driver and is loaded as a Linux </ins>kernel module. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Servers that require access to </ins>tape devices <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">include Tivoli Storage Manager (for server or storage agents) or IBM Spectrum Archive. The </ins>{{code|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lin_taped</ins>}} <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">daemon creates the special device files that correspond to the tape devices. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You can see all attached </del>tape devices <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </del>{{code|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/proc/scsi/IBMtape</del>}}</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After the {{code|lin_tape}} module is loaded, you can see all attached tape devices with {{code|/proc/scsi/IBMtape}}:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{highlight|lang=terminal|code=</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{highlight|lang=terminal|code=</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>## On a TSM server with access to only LTO7 drives:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>## On a TSM server with access to only LTO7 drives:</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l62">Line 62:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 61:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>2      03584L32    0000078BA6130402        qla2xxx                  3:0:2:1        Alternate</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>2      03584L32    0000078BA6130402        qla2xxx                  3:0:2:1        Alternate</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>3      03584L32    0000078BA6130402        qla2xxx                  5:0:2:1        Alternate}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>3      03584L32    0000078BA6130402        qla2xxx                  5:0:2:1        Alternate}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== See Also ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Installing lin_tape driver: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installing-lintape-device-driver</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wiki:diff:1.41:old-4836:rev-4839:php=table --> </table>

Leo https://leo.leung.xyz/wiki/index.php?title=IBM_Tape&diff=4836&oldid=prev 2020-06-12T22:09:37Z

<p>Created page with &quot;IBM tape devices are interfaced with the {{code|lin_tape}} kernel module. You can see all attached tape devices with {{code|/proc/scsi/IBMtape}} {{highlight|lang=terminal|co...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>IBM tape devices are interfaced with the {{code|lin_tape}} kernel module.<br /> <br /> You can see all attached tape devices with {{code|/proc/scsi/IBMtape}}<br /> <br /> {{highlight|lang=terminal|code=<br /> ## On a TSM server with access to only LTO7 drives:<br /> [root@tsm ~]# cat /proc/scsi/IBMtape<br /> lin_tape version: 3.0.18<br /> lin_tape major number: 243<br /> Attached Tape Devices:<br /> Number model SN HBA SCSI FO Path<br /> 0 ULT3580-TD7 00078D15CE lpfc 1:0:0:0 Primary<br /> 1 ULT3580-TD7 00078D15D3 lpfc 1:0:1:0 Primary<br /> 2 ULT3580-TD7 00078D1255 lpfc 1:0:2:0 Primary<br /> 3 ULT3580-TD7 00078D12D2 lpfc 1:0:3:0 Primary<br /> 4 ULT3580-TD7 00078D15CE lpfc 2:0:0:0 Alternate<br /> 5 ULT3580-TD7 00078D15D3 lpfc 2:0:1:0 Alternate<br /> 6 ULT3580-TD7 00078D125C lpfc 2:0:2:0 Primary<br /> 7 ULT3580-TD7 00078D1586 lpfc 3:0:0:0 Primary<br /> 8 ULT3580-TD7 00078D159C lpfc 3:0:1:0 Primary<br /> 9 ULT3580-TD7 00078D125C lpfc 3:0:2:0 Alternate<br /> 10 ULT3580-TD7 00078D1586 lpfc 4:0:0:0 Alternate<br /> 11 ULT3580-TD7 00078D159C lpfc 4:0:1:0 Alternate<br /> 12 ULT3580-TD7 00078D12D2 lpfc 4:0:2:0 Alternate<br /> 13 ULT3580-TD7 00078D1255 lpfc 4:0:3:0 Alternate<br /> <br /> ## On a LTFSEE server with access to LTO8 drives on the same tape library:<br /> [root@ltfs ~]# cat /proc/scsi/IBMtape <br /> <br /> lin_tape version: 3.0.52 <br /> lin_tape major number: 240 <br /> Attached Tape Devices: <br /> Number model SN HBA SCSI FO Path <br /> 0 ULT3580-TD8 000780765B qla2xxx 5:0:0:0 Primary <br /> 1 ULT3580-TD8 000780765B qla2xxx 3:0:0:0 Alternate <br /> 2 ULT3580-TD8 0007807A0B qla2xxx 3:0:1:0 Primary <br /> 3 ULT3580-TD8 0007807A4B qla2xxx 3:0:2:0 Primary <br /> 4 ULT3580-TD8 0007807A0B qla2xxx 5:0:1:0 Alternate <br /> 5 ULT3580-TD8 0007807A4B qla2xxx 5:0:2:0 Alternate}} <br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, the tape changers can be viewed with cat /proc/scsi/IBMchanger.<br /> {{highlight|lang=terminal|code=<br /> [root@tsm ~]# cat /proc/scsi/IBMchanger<br /> lin_tape version: 3.0.18<br /> lin_tape major number: 243<br /> Attached Changer Devices:<br /> Number model SN HBA SCSI FO Path<br /> 0 03584L32 0000078BA6130401 lpfc 1:0:0:1 Primary<br /> 1 03584L32 0000078BA6130401 lpfc 2:0:0:1 Alternate<br /> 2 03584L32 0000078BA6130401 lpfc 3:0:1:1 Alternate<br /> 3 03584L32 0000078BA6130401 lpfc 4:0:1:1 Alternate<br /> <br /> [root@ltfs ~]# cat /proc/scsi/IBMchanger <br /> <br /> lin_tape version: 3.0.52 <br /> lin_tape major number: 240 <br /> Attached Changer Devices: <br /> Number model SN HBA SCSI FO Path <br /> 0 03584L32 0000078BA6130402 qla2xxx 3:0:0:1 Primary <br /> 1 03584L32 0000078BA6130402 qla2xxx 5:0:0:1 Alternate<br /> 2 03584L32 0000078BA6130402 qla2xxx 3:0:2:1 Alternate<br /> 3 03584L32 0000078BA6130402 qla2xxx 5:0:2:1 Alternate}}</div>

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