I have a brand new Sony LIB162/A5BBLE -- tape changer with one AIT5 tape
drive. AIT5 just started shipping last fall, so I've had to do this
without any examples turning up in google. Therefore, I thought I would
toss it back to the list in case anyone else can use it.
I just finished using amtapetype to whack the drive overnight, and it
came up with the following results (I modified the comments and replaced
unknown-tapetype):
# /usr/local/sbin/amtapetype -f /dev/rmt/1n -e 400G
Writing 16384 Mbyte compresseable data: 682 sec
Writing 16384 Mbyte uncompresseable data: 682 sec
Estimated time to write 2 * 409600 Mbyte: 34100 sec = 9 h 28 min
wrote 12451840 32Kb blocks in 95 files in 16323 seconds (short write)
wrote 12451840 32Kb blocks in 190 files in 16335 seconds (short write)
define tapetype SONY-AIT5 {
comment "SONY AIT5 8mm tape drive"
# data provided by Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
# produced by whacking it for 10 hrs or so with amtapetype
# on a Sun E250 with a Dual Ultra320 LVD SCSI PCI card
length 389120 mbytes
filemark 0 kbytes
speed 24401 kps
}
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To get the tape drive working, I had to go to Sony tech support. They
hadn't released the unix configuration guide with the AIT5 updates yet.
But, they gave me the details in an email.
I'm working on a Sun E250 running Solaris 9.
I edited /kernel/drv/st.conf and added:
tape-config-list=
"SONY SDX-1100", "SONY AIT5 8mm",
"SONY_AIT";
SONY_AIT = 2, 0x36, 0, 0x19639, 4, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0, 60, 900, 900, 1500, 1200, 1200, 18000;
Of course, that requires a `touch /reconfigure` and `reboot`.
Then, I was able to do `mt -f /dev/rmt/1n status` and successfully run
ufsdump.
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To get the changer working, I edited /kernel/drv/sgen.conf and added:
device-type-config-list=changer;
and uncommented the whole block of lines that had the form:
name="sgen" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0;
Of course, again, `touch /reconfigure` and `reboot`.
Then I downloaded and installed mtx (from sunfreeware as
mtx-1.2.17-sol9-sparc-local.gz). Checked the man pages, and was able to
do `/usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/scsi/changer/c7t0d0 status`.
That worked and I could also move tapes around, load them, unload them,
etc. I could see bar codes as well.
I also have sonytape software that I downloaded from sony support.
Haven't used it yet. But it is supposed to handle things like firmware
upgrades. I used the web interface to change the password, because
scrolling through the entire ascii character set on the front panel was
just too much. Then I disconnected it. Command line from the server
should be totally adequate.
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I haven't got amanda configured and running yet.
So I may still have some questions for the group.
But, I thought I would toss this information up on the list just in case
anyone else can make use of it.
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Chris Hoogendyk
-
O__ ---- Systems Administrator
c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments
(*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
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