Hello I did lots of reading manuals and mailing lists but still not succeeded in having amanda talk to the changer. Config: amanda 2.4.3 solaris 2.6 HP surestore C1557A (12000e) Previous installation
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:55:08 -0500
I don't believe this is an amanda problem, but a solaris kernel problem. Unforch, I'll leave the definitive solaris answers to Jon. If its anything like linux, then you should find the correct device
Author: Martin hepworth <martinh AT solid-state-logic DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:43:01 +0000
Sounds like you need to get the chg-<insert_option> working first. have a look at the docs in the tape-changer directory. -- Martin Hepworth Senior Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Ltd +44 (0)
Find your "Getting Started" document, or download same as an acrobat file for the HP support website. It includes very specific switch settings for Sun (and other OS's) systems. Some of the switches
Thanks all It's working now. Had to compile 'sst' from the contrib dir, configure sst.conf and 'add_drv'. It's now at /devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@2,1/sst@4,1:character. I just wonder whether this is
For Solaris 2.6, it might be the only solution (except possibly for STCTL (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl/). For Solaris 8+, there's a Sun driver, sgen(7D), you would use that. -- Jay Lessert jay_