lintape

If you need to user ibm lto tape drive inside IBM, Adic, Dell tapelibrary, with Tivoli Storage Manager is necessary to use

Download latest driver from IBM Fixcentral:
Storage Systems => Tape Systems => Tape device drivers and software => Linux

Get two two RPMs (my system is an RHEL 5 on 32bit hardware) :
lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm <== Kernel module
lin_taped-1.61.0-rhel5.i386.rpm <== Binary services

First step, rebuild the source:

# rpmbuild --rebuild lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm

Installing lin_tape-1.61.0-1.src.rpm
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.625
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ rm -rf lin_tape-1.61.0
+ /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/lin_tape-1.61.0.tgz
[cut]
Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lin_tape-1.61.0-1.i386.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18792
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd lin_tape-1.61.0
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/lin_tape-1.61.0-1-root-root
+ exit 0
Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.18792
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ rm -rf lin_tape-1.61.0
+ exit 0

Second step, install all:

# rpm -Uhv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lin_tape-1.61.0-1.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uhv lin_taped-1.61.0-rhel5.i386.rpm

Last step, start service and check for the probed devices:

# /etc/init.d/lin_tape start

# cat /proc/scsi/IBM*
lin_tape version: 1.61.0
lin_tape major number: 253
Attached Changer Devices:
Number model SN HBA SCSI FO Path
lin_tape version: 1.61.0
lin_tape major number: 253
Attached Tape Devices:
Number model SN HBA SCSI FO Path
0 ULTRIUM-TD2 1110274799 Adaptec 29160B Ultra160 SCSI 2:0:1:0 NA
1 ULTRIUM-TD2 1110275058 Adaptec 29160B Ultra160 SCSI 2:0:2:0 NA