On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:00:25AM +0900, Noel Lindsay Hunt wrote:

We've got 0x3D639 in st.conf for DLT7000. 
It was recommended by Veritas two years ago. 


> > According to the man page of st, the forth field is the options of the
> > drive. For DLT7000, Sun recommends to use 0x19639, Veritas recommends to use
> > 0x1D639. To my experience, both are working perfectly.
> 
> The difference appears to be that Veritas is adding the
> the option `ST_BUFFERED_WRITES':
> 
>      ST_BUFFERED_WRITES
>            If the  flag is set,  when data is written to the tape
>            device,  the  data  is  buffered  by  the driver.  The
>            application may receive acknowledgement of  completion
>            of  the write request before the data has been written
>            to tape.
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