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[Veritas-bu] Running DLT8000 at DLT7000 density under Solaris 2.8

2002-04-11 10:50:15
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running DLT8000 at DLT7000 density under Solaris 2.8
From: gdrew AT deathstar DOT org (George Drew)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:50:15 -0400 (EDT)
Try this, direct from the vendor:

http://www.quantum.com/Service+and+Support/Tape+and+Drives/Technical+Documents/Installation+on+Sun+SPARCstation+Solaris.htm

George

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Winkeler, Paul wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am looking for a way to "trick" the DLT8000 drives to write at a density
> that is readable by DLT7000 drives.  Under Solaris each tape drive gets a
> number of entries in /dev/rmt and I am guessing one of those is the one I
> want.  Can anyone help me figure out what this trick might be?
>
> Your choices are:
>       /dev/rmt/0bn
>       /dev/rmt/0cbn
>       /dev/rmt/0hbn
>       /dev/rmt/0lbn
>       /dev/rmt/0mbn
>       /dev/rmt/0ubn
> Ender Solaris 2.8 the DLT8000 does not have an explicit st.conf entry so I
> do not know what the corresponding density codes might be.
>
> TIA,
>  PaulW
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