[Sunhelp] [bryanf at samurai.com: Solaris upgrade, tapes hold less]

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 07:38:30PM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> I just recently upgraded an E450 from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7.  This machine
> has a StorEdge L280 jukebox attached to it.  I also upgraded Solstice Backup
> from 5.1 to 5.1.1 so this device would be recognized (a required, but not
> documented [that I could find] upgrade).
> After the upgrade(s), my DLT tapes only hold 20Gb, not the 32Gb they used
> to hold.  This is obviously a problem - my full backups now span three tapes
> instead of two.
> The jukebox device is using /dev/rmt/2mbn as it's drive device - has the
> DLT sizing convention changed between Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7?
> Any hints would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Bryan

I'd say look at the Legato config instead of the Solaris config... 

Bill

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