Hi,

Were using 9840's as well and have been told to use:

STK9840      =       1,0x39,0,0x18439,1,0x00,0 

0x39 represents 9840's with the latest st patch.
The difference here is (0x18349) buffering is disabled and knows EOD is
disabled.

Currently we use:

STK9840      =       1,0x36,0,0x1d639,1,0x00,0 

Which is identical to yours except reserve/release.

I suspect 0x36 is not a real concern, yet Im intrigued
as to why weve been told to disable buffering and EOD.

What are your thoughts? Ive been chasing this issue with
Veritas for weeks and havent had a consistent response.

My poll to date suggests 2 use it, 1 doesnt.

Regards
Peter Marelas

      -----Original Message-----
> From: Slagle, Ed [SMTP:eslagle AT hersheys DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, 16 April 2001 10:57 PM
> To:   Marelas, Peter
> Cc:   'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] SCSI Reserve/Release
> 
> Reserve/release needs to be set as follows (we use 9840's w/ SSO in our
> SAN):
> 
> tape-config-list=
> "STK     9840", "STK 9840 Fast Access", "STK9840";
> STK9840 = 1,0x36,0,0x3d639,1,0x00,0;
> 
> **********************************************************
> Edward Slagle
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> Hershey Foods Corporation
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marelas, Peter [mailto:MarelP AT australia.stortek DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:00 AM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] SCSI Reserve/Release
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'ld like to take a poll on how many installations of Netbackup 3.2GA or
> 3.4
> in a Fabric Switched SAN environment
> with Shared Storage Option, have enabled SCSI Reserve/Release in the
> Solaris
> st driver (st.conf).
> 
> Please let me know if you have a similar environment and whether you
> enabled
> reserve/release.
> Also, I would be interested to hear of any problems experienced if
> reserve/release is NOT enabled, and if
> reserve/release IS enabled.
> 
> Peter Marelas
> Senior Consultant
> 0410 497 228 Mobile
> 61.3.9699.1033 Phone
> 61.3.9690.8528 Fax
> StorageTek
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