Re: [Networker] Exabyte 110 L with LTO-2 on solaris 8 with NW 6.1.2

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:29:19 +0200, Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)
<maarten.boot AT NL.COMPUWARE DOT COM> wrote:

>I am now the proud administrator of 3 brand new Exabyte 110L with LTO-2
>tape-drives (scsi).
>
>Currently we run Solaris 8 and Networker 6.1.2.
>
>I am trying to find out if I have to upgrade to support LTO-2.

I don't think 6.1.2 can support LTO-2, but 6.1.3 can.

>Solaris 8 does seem to support in the /kernel/drv/st driver this drive as i
>found a reference on a mailing list how to check for that:
>
>strings /kernel/drv/st | grep -i ultrium will show you what is recognized
by
>the st driver as a native supported device by sun. However that same
posting
>also mentioned a line to put into the st.conf file.
>This makes me confused as I thought that native supported drive types do
not
>have to be specified in the st.conf file.

Whether it is supported with Solaris 8 will depend on the version of the st
patch installed (108725). I don't know what rev you need, but I recommend
you patch it up to the latest.

>When testing the drive it reports being full after 28 Gb that seems poorly
>compared to the 200Gb it can have without compression.

If it fills at 28GB this is certainly due to a write error of some
description. Investigate logs, check connections etc. If this is a SAN....

>
>In short I am puzzled it I maybe have to upgrade to Solaris 9 (no problem
with
>that) , and Networker 7.0 ( in my opinion to unstable as yet ).

I don't think anyone has suggested that NW7.0 is unstable, it's just that
it's still a bit of an unknown quantity, not really that many people using
it in anger. I think a lot of people have been bitten before with early
versions, such as 5.5 and 6.0, so there is an air of caution around.

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