On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:48:47AM -0500, Andy Howell wrote:
> Andy Howell wrote:
> >
> >So, I wonder what the 'Incorrect Length Indicator Set' means?
> 
> That turned out to be the key!
> 
> Sorry to keep posting to myself, but I found the problem and thought 
> maybe I could save someone else the pain. It turns out that kernel did 
> not know about drive bacause the name had IBM in it. I added the 
> following entry to /kernel/drv/st.conf, rebooted and it worked. Not sure 
> what all the parameters mean. I just cut'n'pasted the corresponding 
> unbranded Exabyte ones.
> 
> tape-config-list=
>         "EXABYTE IBM-8505",     "Exabyte IBM-8505 8mm Helical 
> Scan","IBM-8505";
> IBM-8505        =       1,0x29,0,0xce39,4,0x14,0x15,0x8c,0x8c,1;

Checking st.conf entries was going to be one suggestion.  Along with
what does "prtconf -v" report about the drive and what entry it chose
to use for the tape drive.

You 'should have been' able to avoid a reboot after by using devfsadm(1m).
That runs at boot time to check devices.  With arguments it can be made
to work on just a class of devices, like disk or tape or ...

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