My thanks to: "David A. Harvey" <dharvey@icarus.weber.edu> who provided the
insight to the actual configuration and my problem (compression). Also
thanks to Jacques Rall <jacques.rall@za.eds.com> who reinforced Dave's
suggestion to check the dip switches on the drive.
Changing the DIP switches did the trick. After setting the compression
switch to off - this required opening the external drive case-, I was able
to access the drive as /dev/rmt/2l. Thus solving my problem - making use of
the free hardware.
Thanks to all who responded. I have included the initial post below:
From: Bob Bell[SMTP:BBell@scientech.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 1997 12:10 AM
To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Stacker Drive
I have been given (never turn down free hardware) a Conner 4584NP 4mm DAT 4
tape stacker drive. I am trying to configure it on a Solaris 5.3 Sparc 10.
Here is what I have tried.
I shut the system down and at the >>> promt, I did a probe-scsi.
I get a two line display back for the device...
Target 6 Unit 0 Removable Tape ARCHIVE Python 28849-XXX4.98
Unit 1 Removable Device Type 8 ARCHIVE Python 28849-XXX4.98
I booted and made the following modifications to the
/kernel/drv/st.conf file.
tape-confing-list =
"ARCHIVE Python 28849-XXX4.98","Archive Python 4mm DAT
Stacker:,"ARCH_Python";
ARCH_Python = 1,0x2c,0,0xde39,4,0x00,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,3;
I then booted with the -r option.
It builds new entries in the /dev/rmt/ directory. Everything seemed normal,
no errors logged during the boot. But, I can't access the drive ... when I
do a mt -f /dev/rmt/2 status, I get /dev/rmt/2 no tape mounted or device
offline.
Any ideas?
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