If you need to user ibm lto tape drive inside IBM, Adic, Dell tapelibrary, with Tivoli Storage Manager is necessary to use
Download latest driver from IBM Fixcentral: Storage Systems => Tape Systems => Tape device drivers and software => Linux
Get two two RPMs (my system is an RHEL 5 on 32bit hardware) : lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm <== Kernel module lin_taped-1.61.0-rhel5.i386.rpm <== Binary services
First step, rebuild the source:
# rpmbuild --rebuild lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm` ` Installing lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.625 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + rm -rf lin_tape-1.61.0 + /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/lin_tape-1.61.0.tgz [cut] Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lin_tape-1.61.0-1.i386.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18792 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd lin_tape-1.61.0 + rm -rf /var/tmp/lin_tape-1.61.0-1-root-root + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18792 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + rm -rf lin_tape-1.61.0 + exit 0 Second step, install all:
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