Re: Two partitions, one tape drive

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need a virtual SCSI connection from the partition owning the drive 
to the partition 'wanting' the drive. Then when it's varied off on the 
owning partition it can be varied ON on the client partition.

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 12/4/2012 2:23 PM, Paul Nelson wrote:
> List,
>
> A client of mine just got a new machine that their now infamous software
> vendor ordered for them. It is divided into two partitions, and has one tape
> drive.
>
> I don't have access to it right now, but their vendor told them to just
> configure a virtual tape drive and they could then toggle the tape between
> the two partitions.
>
> I told them that this wasn't the purpose of the virtual tape feature, but I
> have never actually set up a box with this configuration. Google is showing
> me stuff dated around 2005. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Nelson
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