SUMMARY: Exabyte 8205 & Solaris 2.3

From: Depuy, Scott (depuy@ssims.nci.nih.gov)
Date: Thu Mar 30 1995 - 14:43:00 CST


> I have an Exabyte 8205 drive in an Artecon enclosure that I am trying to
use
> with Solaris 2.3. When I probe-scsi at the ok prompt the device is
> reconized as an 8205. After adding a couple of lines to my st.conf file I

> rebooted -r and the mt command tells me that the device is reconized as an

> 8200. When writing to the drive I get a data overrun error on the SCSI
bus.
>
> I will show the st.conf file that I settled on below but I tried putting
> those lines in every possible location of that file and rebooting -r with
no
> success. It seems that I am missing some step or using the wrong
procedure
> since the st file (binary version) never gets changed in this entire
> process. Any suggestions?

I had tried several versions of st.conf before Rich Pluta's did the trick.

#
# Copyright (c) 1992, by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
#
#ident "@(#)st.conf 1.6 93/05/03 SMI"

tape-config-list =
        "EXABYTE EXB-8205", "Exabyte 8MM hh /w compression", "EXB8205-data"
EXB8205-data = 1,0x35,1024,0x0039,2,0x14,0x90,1;

name="st" class="scsi"
     target=0 lun=0;

name="st" class="scsi"
     target=1 lun=0;

name="st" class="scsi"
     target=2 lun=0;
...
name="st" class="scsi"
     target=15 lun=0;

Thanks to
Rick Pluta
Henry Unger



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