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Configuring tape device drivers on Linux systems

Review the following topics when you install and configure tape device drivers on Linux® systems.

Configuring IBM Storage Protect passthru drivers for tape devices and libraries
To use the IBM Storage Protect Linux Passthru driver, you must complete the following steps.
Installing zSeries Linux Fibre Channel adapter (zfcp) device drivers
The zSeries Linux Fibre Channel adapter (zfcp) device driver is a special adapter driver on the IBM® zSeries system.
Information about your system's SCSI devices
Information about the devices seen by your system is available in the file /proc/scsi/scsi. This file contains a list of every detected SCSI device.
Preventing tape labels from being overwritten
The IBM Storage Protect Passthru device driver uses the Linux SCSI generic device driver (sg) to control and operate tape devices that are attached on the system. If the Linux generic SCSI tape device driver (st) is loaded to the kernel and configures attached tape devices, conflicts can arise over how a device is managed because the generic sg driver and the st driver can both control the same device.

Parent topic: Installing and configuring tape device drivers