On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Christopher Linn wrote:
> are you using gcc or SUNWspro cc?
gcc. It's the only compiler I have, since I'm not about to fork out money
for a commercial compiler which is less capable than the robust FSF
compiler. 8-)
> if you are running a 64 bit kernel, then you must build your changer
> software in 64 bit mode; this means you cannot use gcc, since gcc
> doesn't do 64 bit (on solaris) yet.
Nope - this machine is a Sparc 20, so it only supports 32 bit mode.
> also, have you seen the stctl package?
>
> http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~eric/stctl/
>
> written for solaris, i have been using this as my changer software
> for several years, with both an exabyte 10-h changer and now a
> compaq storageworks SSL2000 series AIT2 changer; i had to tweek the
> timeout value for the Initialize Element Status command for the
> exabyte 10-h, but other than that it has been working flawlessly on
> solaris 2.6 and solaris 8.
Can't say I have, but I will check it out. Looks like the ideal solution
if the mtx/sst and mtx/sgen combinations are going to continue to give
problems.
Thanks very much for the pointer...
Regards,
Craig.
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