On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:53:36AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a Solaris 9 box and we bought a new tape drive model Certance LTO-2.
> > Currently, I am trying to identify the tape drive using amtapetype command
> > but it does not work.
> 
> For a tape drive to work on Solaris there must be an appropriate entry
> in the st (Scsi Tape) driver configuration file /kernel/drv/st.conf.
> On my Solaris 9 system (x86, but it should not matter) there are no
> entries for 'certance' or for 'ultrium 2' drives.  Sometimes I've
> installed drives that had instructions to edit the file to add
> driver configuration information for the new drive.  Your's didn't?
> Was it listed by the vendor as Solaris supported?

You should normally only need to edit st.conf for drive types not natively
supported by the driver.  LTO-2 has had native support in Solaris 9 since
Jan 2003 (introduced in patch 113324-03, which was obsoleted by 113277-08).