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  3. October 2024

Re: Power7, VIOS, SAS attached tape library

As I recall the SAS attachment is what's gonna be yer undoin.

VIOS is awesome at virtualizing fiber tape but notsomuch with SAS tape. If I recall correctly you CAN share a tape drive by soft switching the thing between partitions inside of VIOS but I don't think it supports library devices.

- L

On 10/15/2024 5:05 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
Hello,

I've been tasked to find out if a HP physical tape library being attached through a SAS HBA to a Power 7 machine running VIOS and IBM i 7.3 can be used in a meaningful way with just "stock" commands (sav*, rst*), *without* BRMS.

I'm not aware of "native" IBM i commands to control a tape changer, analog to mtx on Linux. Do I miss something or is BRMS mandatory to steer media changers from within IBM i?

Thanks!

:wq! PoC



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