[SunRescue] AIT 1 tape drive problems on Solaris 2.6 ...

[Jonathan Katz]

Hi!

Go to http://sunsolve.sun.com and search for 'AIT' -- chances are you'll
find the needed setting for /kernel/drv/st.conf which will send the right
bits to the tapedrive to turn on compression at the hardware level. You'll
of-course need to either 'rm_drv st; add_drv st;' or reboot w/ a boot -r 
for the new settings to kick in...

If sun.com can't help try your drive's vendor.... or even a vendor of a 
similar drive...

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Mike Hebel wrote:

:I'm managing a Sun E450 server with Solaris 2.6 and an AIT 1 Sony/Qualstar
:tape drive on the system.  (Sony SDX-300C)
:
:What's happening is that the tape drive is not compressing no matter what I
:do with it.  We're using ufsdump to do the backups of the 27gig of data on
:our 40gig RAID.

-- 
Jonathan Katz
e-mail: jon at jonworld.com 
website: http://jonworld.com
proprietor: http://bachelor-cooking.com
Cell: 317-698-4023 * Pager: 800-759-8888 1770869 * FAX: 530-688-5347