> we are planning to upgrade our old TSM 4.2 server (43p, 133Mhz, AIX 4.3) > with a Qualstar 46120 AIT2 tape library to a new server, os and TSM > version. Since we are using Debian Linux on a lot of servers, we would > like to also run TSM 5.x with Debian Linux. I know from out old AIX box, > that for the tape library we need special ADSM Drivers for the tapes and > for the picker. > > No I would like to know, if anybody has experiences with TSM on a Debian > server, how kernel dependend this is, if we need special drivers for the > tape library, etc. I know, that TSM is not officially supported on > Debian Linux yet.
I've been running TSM on Debian at home (with no libraries or drives) for a while already. I also did a test of TSM 5.3 on a Debian PC with a Spectra 2K library and 2 AIT drives. It worked very well, the only problem I had was with the library that couldn't dismount tapes properly. In my opinion the problem was with the library and not TSM/Debian (I posted a message on the list in January about this, if you're interested). I suggest you install TSM 5.3 which uses the Linux "sg" driver to access non-IBM devices, which is your case (prior to 5.3 TSM provided its own "tsmscsi" driver which was kernel-dependent). You can convert the RPMs to Debian format with "alien -kv <file>.rpm" and then install them with "dpkg -i ...". Dmitri
