On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:53:36AM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a Solaris 9 box and we bought a new tape drive model Certance LTO-2. > > Currently, I am trying to identify the tape drive using amtapetype command > > but it does not work. > > For a tape drive to work on Solaris there must be an appropriate entry > in the st (Scsi Tape) driver configuration file /kernel/drv/st.conf. > On my Solaris 9 system (x86, but it should not matter) there are no > entries for 'certance' or for 'ultrium 2' drives. Sometimes I've > installed drives that had instructions to edit the file to add > driver configuration information for the new drive. Your's didn't? > Was it listed by the vendor as Solaris supported?
You should normally only need to edit st.conf for drive types not natively supported by the driver. LTO-2 has had native support in Solaris 9 since Jan 2003 (introduced in patch 113324-03, which was obsoleted by 113277-08).
