Solaris 2.1/2.2 HP DAT installation

[Ron Nash]

I'm currently running 2 HP DAT 35480A drives under SunOS 4.1.3.
I will be installing Solaris 2.2 in about 10 days and am interested
in how others have installed these DAT drives under Solaris 2.1 or
2.2.

Thanks!

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[Gil Tene]

In article <1uoavk$s...@gondor.sdsu.edu>, na...@gondor.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash) writes:
|> I'm currently running 2 HP DAT 35480A drives under SunOS 4.1.3.
|> I will be installing Solaris 2.2 in about 10 days and am interested
|> in how others have installed these DAT drives under Solaris 2.1 or
|> 2.2.
|>

Simple. I just hooked it up, and ran the following commands (as root):
loki# drvconfig
loki# tapes

These found the drive (which was at scsi id 5), and set up the device
and tape files. /dev/rmt/0 and /dev/rmt/0n are the devices I use to
access the tape using mt, tar and ufsdump/ufsrestore (the Sol2.2
versions of dump/restore)...

This works (was tested) on both Solaris 2.1 and Solaris 2.2.

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