[Sunhelp] Re: new tape library

L leed at chele.cais.net
Wed Aug 2 08:22:25 CDT 2000


I don't think so.  We have external SONY AIT tape driver connect to SUN
E450 computer (Solaris 2.7).  We did NOT modified /kernel/drv/st.conf.  It
still work correctly.


On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Greg Kranz wrote:

> You will also need to do some work on the /kernel/drv/st.conf file, depending on 
> which tape drives are installed in the Spectra Logic 10000.  Assuming you have 
> the SONY AIT drives, you will have to add two lines that are close to the 
> following:
> 
> 	        "SONY    SDX-300C",     "SONY AIT",   "SONY_AIT";
> 	        
> 	        SONY_AIT       =   1,0x34,0,0x3d639,4,0x13,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,3;
> 
> The ";" at the end of the first line, ends the tape drive description section of 
> this file.  If you have more than one line uncommented in this section then only 
> the last line ends in a ";".  The others end in a ","
> 
> 
> The details are outlined on the Spectralogic web site, in the 10000 
> documentation.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # From: Naser Ali <Ali.Naser at irs.gov>
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> # Hello
> #  I have just connected a Spectra Logic 10000 to my SUN E-3000 running
> # Solaris 2.6.
> # Now I can see the 2 drives in the library but do not know how to access it
> # from the command line.
> # 
> # Any pointers will be help full.
> # TIA
> 
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> 
> 
> Greg Kranz
> Tyco Electronics, A Tyco International Limited Company
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