Thanks Christopher and others, I did not have the mt_st package installed. Thus only basic tape functionality was possible. I have installed it now and modified /etc/stinit.def Will start testing to make sure everything is working. Greg On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:06, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Greg Freemyer (freemyer-ml@NorcrossGroup.com) [031001 14:25]:
I have just added a used IBM LTO Ultrium Gen 1 drive with a Adaptec 29160 to my server. The tape drive is the only device on the scsi bus.
So far I am just using the aic7xxx module that ships with SuSE 8.2
I think I have the basic functionality working (ie. /dev/st0), but I want to be able to use the compression feature of the drive.
Unless you're using a utility that the vendor provides normally this is setup by adding an entry in /etc/stinit.def for the drive. For my VXA drives I use something like
manufacturer="Ecrix" model = "VXA-1" scsi2logical=1 can-bsr can-partitions auto-lock mode1 blocksize=0 compression=1 mode2 blockzize=1024 compression=0
All of those except the blocksize (variable) and compression are fairly standard I think. /usr/share/doc/packages/mt_st and http://www.linuxtapecert.org will have more info although I'm sure IBM has a Redbook for this drive.
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-ckm