You shouldn't need any settings in st.conf in Solaris 9 to support IBM
LTO 2 drives. The settings are in the driver code as of st patch
113277-10 (for Solaris 9).
See Sun Infodoc # 77027 at
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc%2F77027
-Craig
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:49:08 +0100, michael.thomson AT orange.co DOT uk
<michael.thomson AT orange.co DOT uk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Samuel
>
> I too had problems with LTO-2 drive definitions. After protracted wrangling
> between StorageTek, IBM and Sun, here's what I'm using in my
> /kernel/drv/st.conf
> files:
>
> tape-config-list =
> "IBM ULTRIUM-TD1", "IBM Ultrium Gen 1 LTO-custom", "IBM-LTO1",
> "IBM ULTRIUM-TD2", "IBM Ultrium Gen 2 LTO-custom", "IBM-LTO2";
>
> IBM-LTO1 = 1, 0x3B, 0, 0x19639, 4, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 3;
> IBM-LTO2 = 1, 0x3B, 0, 0x19639, 4, 0x40, 0x40, 0x42, 0x42, 3;
>
> And if anyone is interested, here's what it all means!
>
> 1 version number (1 or 2)
> 0x3B type (see /usr/include/sys/mtio.h)
> 0 preferred block size (0=variable)
> 0x19639 options (bit pattern, for details see
> /usr/include/sys/scsi/targets/stdef.h)
> 0x19639 contains the flags marked (*), any gaps left as an exercise
> for the student... :-)
> 0x000001 * ST_VARIABLE
> 0x000002 ST_QIC
> 0x000004 ST_REEL
> 0x000008 * ST_BSF
> 0x000010 * ST_BSR
> 0x000020 * ST_LONG_ERASE
> 0x000040 ST_AUTODEN_OVERRIDE
> 0x000080 ST_NOBUF
> 0x000200 * ST_KNOWS_EOD
> 0x000400 * ST_UNLOADABLE
> 0x000800 ST_SOFT_ERROR_REPORTING
> 0x001000 * ST_LONG_TIMEOUTS
> 0x008000 * ST_NO_RECSIZE_LIMIT
> 0x010000 * ST_MODE_SEL_COMP
> 0x020000 ST_NO_RESERVE_RELEASE
> 0x040000 ST_READ_IGNORE_ILI
> 0x080000 ST_READ_IGNORE_EOFS
> 0x100000 ST_SHORT_FILEMARKS
> 0x200000 ST_EJECT_TAPE_ON_CHANGER_FAILURE
> 0x400000 ST_RETRY_ON_RECOVERED_DEFERRED_ERROR
> 4 number of compression options
> 0x40 compression value 1
> 0x40 compression value 2
> 0x42 compression value 3
> 0x42 compression value 4
> 3 default compression option
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
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