Sorry for the long delay! My original question was:
> after moving my SS2 from 4.1.3 to 5.3 the system now is not able
> to use my Exabyte 8500 in high density mode:
>
> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0m status
> /dev/rmt/0m: no tape loaded or drive offline
> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0h status
> /dev/rmt/0h: no tape loaded or drive offline
> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0l status
> Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm tape drive:
> sense key(0x5)= Illegal Request residual= 0 retries= 0
> file no= 0 block no= 0
> # mt -f /dev/rmt/0l status
> Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm tape drive:
> sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
> file no= 0 block no= 0
>
> Under 4.1.3 there was no problem with it.
> Is there anything I can do to enable high density mode?
The solution for me was to add following two lines to /kernel/drv/st.conf:
tape-config-list="EXABYTE EXB-8500-85Qanx0","","ruf1";
ruf1 = 1,0x29,1024,0x0239,4,0x14,0,0,0,1;
The high density mode of my Exabyte 8500 was only usable with
the density code 0.
Many thanks to:
Gene Loriot <epl@kodak.com>
Michael Kutzner <futzi@uni-paderborn.de>
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
worsham@aer.com (Robert D. Worsham)
Rainer Duesterbeck <duesterb@transtec.de>
Regards,
Martin.
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