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Appendix C Product Notes for Sun
™
Order Number: EK–STWCT–UG. E01 C–5
C.2 Modifications Required for Solaris™ 2.3 (or later)
C.2.1 Installation Procedure
NOTES
1. The “SWXTE” designation in the following procedure is the
StorageWorks product name for Exabyte EXB-8505.
2. In order to support the addition of this device, drive
information must be supplied in the
/kernel/drv/st.conf
file as
global properties that apply to each of the targets, or as
properties that are applicable to one target only. The "st
driver" looks for the property called "tape-config-list". For
additional information, read the man page “st”. We
recommend here the use of the global properties approach.
Perform the following steps to modify the system to communicate with the SWXTE
tape drive:
• From the command line, type:
cd /kernel/drv
• Edit the “st.conf” file by adding the following before the first occurrence of
“name=":
# entry for 8505 tape drive
tape-config-list = "EXABYTE EXB-8505", "DEC EXB-8505 8mm Helical Scan /w Compression”,
“swxte-data”;
swxte-data = 1,0x35,1024,0x1639,4,0x14,0x90,0x15,0x8C,3;
where:
In the “tape-config-list” string:
– The first string (
EXABYTE EXB-8505) is the string returned by the SWXTE on a
SCSI inquiry command.
– The second string (
DEC EXB-8505 8mm Helical Scan /w compression) is
the nick name for the SWXTE drive. This string will be displayed on the console
during boot.
– The third string is defined as follows:
In the “swxte-data” string:
– The first parameter (
1) is the revision level of the software and is set to 1
(limitation on Sun operating systems).
– The second parameter (
0x35) is the tape type, specifying 8mm tape drive.
This is defined
in /usr/include/sys/mtio.h.