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[Veritas-bu] LTO-1

2003-08-06 18:16:44
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-1
From: Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com (Fabbro, Andrew P)
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:16:44 -0700
Whoa!

Now we've just spent several weeks trying to get Veritas to tell us how to
use the IBM tape driver in Solaris (the Solaris st driver doesn't supply all
the debugging info we wanted).  Veritas does not support use of the IBMtape
driver at all.  IBM's redbook on LTO for Open Systems does not give
instructions for using the IBMtape driver either - it explains how to use
the st driver.

Veritas has no instructions on how to use the IBMtape driver - they even
combed through their consulting secrets and couldn't find anything.

Are there people using the IBMtape driver with Solaris?

I assume that to use tapeutil you need to have the IBMtape driver installed.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Reiss David IT751 (ext-CDI) [mailto:david.reiss AT siemens DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:25 PM
To: 'J Glacius'; VERITAS-BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO-1


When you're using IBM drives on Solaris, you normally want to get the
IBMtape driver and then use the IBMtape.conf file.   You could then also use
the IBM utilitiy for the drives, tapeutil option #48: Query/Set Parameters.
 
 
David N. Reiss
 <mailto:david.reiss AT siemens DOT com> david.reiss AT siemens DOT com 
407-736-3912
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-----Original Message-----
From: J Glacius [mailto:backup_acct_101 AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:42 PM
To: VERITAS-BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-1


Does anyone have the st.conf settings for IBM LTO-1 drives so that they are
in variable block mode?
 
I've taken the advice of a few of you and tried to "tune" my system only to
find a new error, " too many data blocks written".  According to the support
site that has this listed for DLT, you have to put your drives in variable
block mode.  I haven't been able to find that yet for my LTO-1 drives.
 
Thanks
 
J



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