IBM Spectrum Protect tape device drivers
The IBM Spectrum Protect™ server provides tape device drivers.
An IBM Spectrum Protect tape device driver is installed with the server.
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You can use the generic SCSI tape device driver that is provided by the IBM® AIX® operating system to work with tape devices that are not supported by the IBM Spectrum Protect device driver. If the AIX generic SCSI tape device driver is used, the GENERICTAPE device class must be set to the device type that is specified in the DEFINE DEVCLASS command.
- ECART
- LTO (not from IBM)
All SCSI-attached libraries that contain tape drives from the list must use the IBM Spectrum Protect changer driver.
Tape device drivers that are acquired from other hardware vendors can be used if they are associated with the GENERICTAPE device class. Generic device drivers are not supported in write-one read-many (WORM) device classes.
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You can use the IBM Spectrum Protect Passthru device driver. IBM Spectrum Protect Passthru device drivers require the Linux SCSI generic (sg) device driver along with the Linux operating system to install the kernels.
- ECART
- LTO (not from IBM)
You cannot use the generic SCSI tape (st) device driver that is provided by the Linux operating system. Therefore, the GENERICTAPE device type is not supported for the DEFINE DEVCLASS command.
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