>>Has anyone had any luck getting an Exabyte 8205 8mm tape drive to work with a
>>SPARC Classic or a SPARC 10/50 running Solaris 2.3? We talked to Exabyte, and
>>they said that the 8205 wasn't supported yet. We tried the changes to the
>>drive they suggested to make it emulate an 8200, but no luck; we keep getting
>>a data overrun error ("data_ovr") when we send anything to it. Are there
>>patches to make Solaris support an 8205? Is there a workaround? Or do we
>>have a nice high-tech sculpture on our hands instead of a tape drive?
>In Solaris 2.3 you can write your own SCSI tape definition in
>/kernel/drv/st.conf
>See st(7).
>Casper
And according to the provider of our tape you'll have to add the
following lines to '/usr/kvm/sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c'
(we did it, it works, BUT THE TAPE claims to be an 'Exabyte 8200', BUT WORKS)
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/* Exabyte 8mm 25GB cartridge */
{
"Exabyte EXB-8500c 8mm Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB8500C",
ST_TYPE_EXABYTE, 1024,
(ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE | ST_KNOWS_EOD ),
5000, 5000,
{ 0x00, 0x8C, 0x14, 0x90 },
{ 0, 0, 0, 0 }
Quote:},
/* Exabyte 8mm 12,5 GB cartridge */
{
"Exabyte EXB-8205 8mm Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8205",
ST_TYPE_EXABYTE, 1024,
(ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE | ST_AUTODEN_OVERRIDE ),
5000, 5000,
{ 0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
{ 0, 0, 0, 0 }
Quote:},
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/* Exabyte 8mm 5GB cartridge */
{
"Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8500",
ST_TYPE_EXB8500, 1024,
(ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE),
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