Re: [Mtx-general] Any chance with HP-C7200 Robot?

[Karl M. K. <ka...@if...>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Burkhard Kohl wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am trying to interface a Sun Storedge 2/20 from Solaris 7 and just tried 
> mtx-1.2.9.
> 
> tapeinfo -f /dev/lus 
> 
> reports a 
> 	mtx: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 	mtx: Request Sense: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00
> 	mtx: INQUIRY Command Failed
> 
> Any change to interface this device with mtx?

Hi

It should be possible, but you probably need some other SCSI-driver
for Solaris 7.  I was able to get a Qualstar 4222 to work with
mtx on Sol7 with the sst-driver that comes with amanda.
Last time I looked (and tested), it was found here;

http://download.sourceforge.net/amanda/amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1.tar.gz

You might want to try 
	amanda-2.4.2-20001025-beta2.tar.gz
or
	amanda-2.4.2.tar.gz
instead.  (Or maybe even a cvs download of 2.5)

I had to compile it with Suns workshop C-compiler.
Perhaps the newer ones can be compiled with gcc?

Also, this driver (sst) has a buildin check if the user is root
(access-rights on devices doesn't matter, learned the hard way).
To change this, in file
        $UNCOMPRESSED/amanda-2.4.2-19991216-beta1/contrib/sst/sst.c

Comment out

  1361                  /*
  1362                   * Check root permissions
  1363                   */
  1364                  if (drv_priv(cred_p) != 0) {
  1365                          return (EPERM);
  1366                  }

(The numbers are line-numbers in the file.  They might be
 different in other the other versions of amanda.)

-- 
Karl Magnus Kolstø