[rescue] Solved: redhat 5.5 will not build tape device files

[stephen price]

Nope - was required for solaris 10 sparc to access the drives with netbackup.
And the IBM manual said for linux as well... so with the migration of the
master server(s) from sparc to rh5.5 - we did - - and it didn't.

regards
steve


--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Solved: redhat 5.5 will not build tape device  files
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 8:37 AM
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, stephen price
> wrote:
>
> > contrary to what the "manual" said - de-installed the
> "required" IBMtape driver.
>
> Is it possible that those drivers are only required for
> TSM?
>
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