[SunHELP] Help:Blocksize problem

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

hi Prasad,

if we examine the line in st.conf:

"EXABYTE EXB-8505",    "Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm Helical Scan","EXB-850X",

The first element is what is compared to what is returned by the tape 
drive, the second an informational message and then third a tag which 
will refer to parameters later on.

Therefore , the first element should read "EXABYTE IBM-8505"

so, make a new entry in st.conf with the appropriate first element and 
the other relevant lines.

be very careful to put in the EXACT string returned by probe-scsi.

HTH

Jeremy


Prasad Nikumbh wrote:

> Dear SUNGurus,
>      I have attached a Exabyte 8505 tape drive on my SS5 system
> with solaris 2.5.1 operating system. when i am giving a command
> "probe-scsi-all" at "ok" prompt in PROM Mode, then it probes 
> as-"EXABYTE IBM-8505".
> This tape drive automaticaly configured on my system whithout any
> modification to the /kernel/drv/st.conf file. But tape recognised
> only fixed record length 1024. As my application running on the
> same system requires variable record length, So i want to change
> it from fixed record length to variable record length (Zero block
> size).
>      I have made uncomment the entries in st.conf file to do so
> as follows --
>
> tape-config-list=
> "EXABYTE EXB-8505",    "Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm Helical Scan","EXB-850X",
>  EXB-850X       =       1,0x29,0,0xce39,4,0x14,0x15,0x8c,0x8c,1;
>
>      After modification of st.conf file i have rebooted the
> system with boot -r option to reconfigure but still the same problem is
> persists.
>      I would like to clear one more point here that, if i made
> any small mistake in st.conf then also not giving any error
> messages on console during booting.
>       So please suggest me the appropriate solution for the same
> at the earliest. Awaiting for your valuable reply.
>      Thanking you.
>      Best regards.
>
>                      -- Prasad Nikumbh
>                         Mumbai, INDIA
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