On Mon March 10 2003 14:49, Marty Shannon, RHCE wrote:
>Eric Sproul wrote:
>> Also, my system is Linux, so there
>> are no compression-related device names.
>
>Actually, all Linux Amanda users should read and understand (and
> implement) the stinit man page.  Once you've built a proper
> "/etc/stinit.def" for your drive(s), and make the proper device
> nodes, you should never have any issues with compression again.

While I agree wholeheartedly Marty, all advice of this nature should 
be surrounded by qualifiers.

In this case the file doesn't exist on this RH8.0 system.  And while 
there is a manpage, attempting to setup the .def file without 
access to info that is authoritative *about that drive*, rapidly 
becomes an exersize in futility.  Access to such info can be had, 
this is generally true for the major labels, but when the manual 
that might explain it in sufficient detail as to allow the 
intelligent  construction of that stinit.def file costs $85, I do 
not consider it worth the effort and $$.  That BTW was the quoted 
price for service manual on my 4586np, obtained by a phone call to 
Okla. City.

So in this case the qualifier is possession of enough info.  Other 
than word of mouth on this list, many drives are nothing but black 
boxes, with many good features never used because no one knows 
about them.

Thats what this list is all about, enhancing the possibility of 
someone else having first hand experience with the particular black 
box the poster has, and that someone else has known and lived with 
enough to help the latecomer.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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