ADSM-L

Re: Device support under Solaris

1996-12-06 09:45:22
Subject: Re: Device support under Solaris
From: Bradley King <king AT MONTROUGE.GM.SLB DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:45:22 +0100
>Hi All,
>
>     I am trying to install the ADSM device drivers under Solaris 2.4
>on a Sun Sparcstation IPC for a BreeceHill Q7 (two DLT4000 drives with
>28 slots).  The mt drivers install fine, but the install of "lb" fails:
>
># add_drv -m '* 0666 bin bin' /usr/kernel/drv/lb
>Unable to install/attach driver 'isp'
>Unable to install/attach driver 'lb'



DLT is not supported  for version 1.X on Solaris and apparently never will
be.  Here is what IBM told me:

>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:03:16 EST
>From: "ADSM Pre-sales Technical Marketing Support" <usib5bvr AT ibmmail DOT 
>com>
>To: king AT montrouge.gm.slb DOT com
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Subject: DLT device support
>Status: U
>
>*** Resending note of 11/21/96 17:58
>
>DLT support will be in the V2 SUN Server that's scheduled to GA 3/97.
>we expect it to include DLT 7000 which should be added to the ADSM
>supported device list sometime during 1q97.
>
>Regards,
>Al
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