Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:04:40AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:

Late reply, as this mail (and some other apparently) got stuck in the mailserver...


And check the file st.init, where the letters get their meaning.


Paul, I'm unfamiliar with the file st.init. Nor do I find one on my system. Did you mean the st.conf file in /kernel/drv?

Yes, that's what I mean. (I mixed up Linux /etc/stinit.def and Solaris /kernel/drv/st.conf apparently.)


If the st.conf file, I don't find an entries for any lto's I
recognize.  One poster said it was "builtin" to the driver,
another said they had to edit the file and add an entry.

Yes, some are built-in into the driver. Non-builtin can be defined in this file. At least, that's what I did to get my Sony AIT-1 tape drive working on Solaris without compresssion.


The drive docs would probably still be needed to interpret the entry.

You need some numbers to fill in, and I got those from a webpage by the manufacturer of my drive (Sony). Without the numbers, the drive did work, but it would always have hardware compression on (or always off, if I switched the dip-switch in the drive). With the correct numbers, I can control the hw-compression by using the appropriate letter /dev/rmt/0c.

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