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

[MikeHebeldruaga at pmail.net]

I'll check the Sunsolve site but I don't hold out much hope.  Both Qualstar
and Sony gave me different st.conf settings.  I've tried about 5 different
versions of those and nothing seems to help.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Sincerely,

Mike Hebel

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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Jonathan Katz
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 2:33 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] AIT 1 tape drive problems on Solaris 2.6 ...


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.

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