Date: Sat, 2 Oct 99 16:33:43 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #27 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sat, 2 Oct 99 Volume 12 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: Exabyte and Solaris 7 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:00:56 +0100 (BST) From: Charles Lindsey Subject: Exabyte and Solaris 7 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have an Exabyte tape drive and have just installed Solaris 7 (sparc). The two do not get on well together. It will rewind and shift back and forth over files (using the mt command) but any attempt to read gives immediate read failures (using dd, or anything else). It worked fine under Solaris 2.5.1, so it is not a hardware problem. Indeed, it sounds like a driver problem. So is this a known bug, and is there a patch? I see that there is a patch #107460-03 "SunOS 5.7 st driver patch" (but not publicly available apparently). Is this anything to do with the problem? Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Email: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Voice/Fax: +44 161 437 4506 Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5 - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************