The drives may have virtual stackers. After all, they're emulating a 3590 and they had stackers.
We have been encouraging people to use their FC-attached tape drives or backing up to a backup server (that dumps it to tape for you), or use storage-managed replication. That is, use whatever solutions other Linux servers are using. 3590 tapes just aren't very interesting to the Linux space, but they're perfectly usable for z/VM itself, if you had something like IBM Backup and Restore Manager and IBM Tape Manager. Regards, Alan Alan Altmark IBM Senior z/VM Engineer and Consultant 1 607 321 7556 (Mobile) alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of David Wakser > Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 11:21 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [LINUX-390] zLinux tape mounting > > Thanks, Alan. Yes, I saw that command - but didn't think it was applicable - > we, of course, have no > stackers. 😊 > > I have approached the vendor, since he provided utilities for both z/VSE > (VSEn) and z/VM for tape > mounting, but he claims no one ever asked for this for zLinux. I was hoping > someone else in the world > needed to do this and had found a way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
