From: Marco Greene (mwegreene@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 13:59:45 EDT
Thanks to Jay Lessert. I have confirmed this to be the case.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Lessert [mailto:jayl@accelerant.net]
Sent: June 26, 2003 1:13 PM
To: Marco Greene
Subject: Re: Verifying st.conf
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:26:51AM -0400, Marco Greene wrote:
> Hi all,
> Got a quick question about st.conf. How do you verify that your
> tape drive loaded in the settings within st.conf? i.e. If you typed in
> "Compaq SLT" did that take or should you have had a few more spaces. I
> can't seem to find any documentation on how to check that?
The st(7D) man page alludes to it vaguely. :-)
st(7D): The formal syntax is:
st(7D):
st(7D): tape-config-list = <triplet> [, <triplet> *];
st(7D): where
st(7D):
st(7D): <triplet> := <vid+pid>, <pretty print>, <data-property-name>
st(7D): and
st(7D):
st(7D): <data-property-name> = <version>, <type>, <bsize>,
st(7D): <options>, <number of densities>,
st(7D): <density> [, <density>*], <default-density>;
st(7D):
st(7D): <vid+pid> is the string that is returned by the tape device
st(7D): on a SCSI inquiry command.
st(7D):
st(7D): <pretty print> is used to report the device on the console.
st(7D): This string may have zero length, in which case the
st(7D): <vid+pid> will be used to report the device.
<vid+pid> is your "Compaq SLT" (with, for example, *exactly* three
spaces, the sort of thing you are worried about).
<pretty print> is the "Compaq Gazingabyte Tape", so your tape-config-list
looks something like:
tape-config-list =
"Compaq SLT", "Compaq Gazingabyte Tape", "CSLT-200";
If the <pretty print> string shows up /var/adm/messages at boot time,
then the st driver matched st.conf with the device.
If *only* the <vid+pid> shows up (in single-quotes, I think), then
it was not matched.
I believe the same holds true for 'mt -f /dev/rmt/xxx status'.
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