* Drew Raines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:26:30PM -0500)
>
> This might be a question better suited for sunmanagers, but I'll try it
> here.
>
> I'm running Solaris 2.7 on an E450, with a DDS-3 changer. amanda's been
> calling my tape drive by /dev/rmt/0n, which is the OS default. From the
> st(7D) manpage, it looks like by not specifying a `u' or a `c' in my device
> name that hardware compression has not been used (contrary to popular
> opinion). The `n' simply means non-rewinding. So does Solaris default to
> using compression or not? Do I need to specify a `l' flag (low density)
> like so?
>
> /dev/rmt/0ln
>
> Everything in the /kernel/drv/st.conf file is set to default (all
> commented).
i's been awhile since Iv'e read these things, but the entry for the dds3
looks like this
HP_DAT_3 = 1,0x34,0,0x9639,4,0x00,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,1;
but the 4 gives the number of densities, and the 4 hex numbers after that
(0x00 0x8c 0x8c 0x8c) give the 4 different density modes.
IIRC the first one (0x00 is for /dev/rmt/Xl) the other for Xc Xh and one
other I forgot).
So, yes, /dev/rmt/0l should give different characteristics.
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