Hello,
I asked: can I use a 8500c exabyte on a Solaris2.2 system?
The answer is:
1) Yes, If you apply the patch below
2) No, wait for Sol2.3
Patch:
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SRDB ID : 5671
SYNOPSIS : patch SunOS2.2 to use 8500C drives in compressed mode
DETAIL DESCRIPTION :
The tape driver of Solaris 2.2 has to be patched to support the exabyte
8500 tape drive in compressed mode.
SOLUTION SUMMARY :
Patch the driver as follows:
>
># perl -pi.FCS -e s/EXB-8500/EXB8500C/ /kernel/drv/st
>
> making sure you don't use any SCSI tape devices:
>
># modunload -i `modinfo | grep -w st | awk '{ print $1 }'`
>
>
KEYWORDS : SunOS2.2, exabyte 8500C tape drive
PRODUCT : Lang
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Thanks to (amongst others, I seem to have replaced some of the numerous
replies... sorry) :
adap@andrews.edu
Ake.Sandgren@cs.umu.se
johnm@sse.com (John Malick)
cc_koper@aaf.alcatel.at (Koper Zangocyan)
scowles@toolik.stanford.edu (S. Cowles)
"Richard Wong" <rnw@math.Princeton.EDU>
Bertil Roslund <bertilr@dit.lth.se>
Ake Sandgren (ake@cs.umu.se)
dzambon@afit.af.mil (Dan A. Zambon)
eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)
era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
wwtz@ciba-geigy.ch (Wolfgang Wetz R1045.P24 75425)
Bedankt!
-- Jan van Doorn, UNIX System Manager Oracle Nederland BV Computer Operations +31 3406 94211, jdoorn@nl.oracle.com
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