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- From: mccoll@cse.uta.edu (Roddy McColl)
- Subject: Re: Exabyte in 8500 mode under SunOS 4.1.1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.193115.9253@cse.uta.edu>
- Followup-To: hemmer@procyon.cern.ch
- Summary: Problem in supplied patch
- Keywords: Exabyte 8500 SunOS 4.1.1
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:31:15 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- hemmer@procyon.cern.ch (Frederic Hemmer ATD10) writes :
- >
- > SunOS 4.1.1 actually can support 8500. It just needs to be helped a little
- > bit :
- >
- > on sun3, sun4 architectures modify /sys/sundev/streg.h :
- > add an entry for 8500 with the low-density flag as first device :
- >
- > /* Exabyte 8mm 5GB cartridge */ \
- > { "Exabyte", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8500", ST_TYPE_EXABYTE, \
- > 1024, (ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE | ST_PHYSREC), \
- > 30, 30, 30, 30, 60, 60, 60, 60, \
- > 0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0, 0, 0, 0 }, \
- >
- > on sun4c (sun4m must have at least 4.1.2) modify /sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c
- > add an entry for 8500 with the low-density flag as first device :
- >
- > "Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8500",
- > ST_TYPE_EXB8500, 1024,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > (ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE),
- > 5000, 5000,
- > { 0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
- > { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
- >
- > and rebuild kernel. This will then use the 0x14 for rst{n} turning the 8500
- > in low density. rst{n+8} will be the normal mode. Note that an 8200 will not
- > accept the 0x14 density flag so this entry will NOT work for 8200.
- >
- > Frederic.
- >
- > Frederic Hemmer email: hemmer@sun1.cern.ch
- > European Laboratory for Particle Physics bitnet: hemmer at cernvm
- > Computers and Networks division phone: +41-22-7676104
- > CH-1211 Geneva 23 - Switzerland fax: +41-22-7677155
-
-
- Frederic,
- Could you please tell me what number *ST_TYPE_EXB8500* should
- be ?
-
- Thanks,
-
-
- Roddy McColl
-