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Re: IBM i guest of IBM i host doesn't find tape drive

On 7/29/2015 6:54 PM, Evan Harris wrote:
Man this sounds familiar....
How does the tape drive look on the hosting partition ?

Not sure what you're asking but just did nightly backups without issues
(after I varied it back on on the hosting partition).

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/29/2015 2:52 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
Try setting the alternate install device. Bypass the select buss and it
should find the tape device.

DST doesn't find it even if I F13 to bypass bus selection.

One more thought. MAKE REALLY sure the tape device is VARIED OFF on the
hosting partition

I tried it both ways. I'm glad it really is supposed to be simple.
Less glad that I can't copy a .log file or a .config file for another
set of eyes to scan.

Thanks for confirming that the book is right. Now it's a matter of
Really Looking at it and making sure I have all the matches matching.


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