For information about supported tape device drivers, see Supported tape devices for Windows servers.
No special actions are required to install the drivers. The instructions provided by the driver provider should be sufficient. Using the new tape drivers, the tape drives look identical to drives available for xSeries® servers. The devices are still listed by type-model number in the device locking/unlocking utility.
After the tape device has been locked once and the server has rebooted, there may appear to be an extra instance of the device in the Removable Storage Manager, and some backup applications. This behavior is normal. It may be safe to delete these extra instances. Consult your documentation. For the latest information see Tape driver migration on the iSeries™ integrated xSeries solutions web site (www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/integratedxseries/windows/tape_driver_migration.html).