Modifying the
st.conf
File
27
A
1. The information about the tape device that the operating system sees when
it 'looks at' a tape device.
2. The information the operating system outputs when queried about the tape
device (by programs such as SunVTS diagnostic software).
3. A string which acts as a pointer to values that will be used to configure the
tape device.
Note – The first two lines of the example end in commas. The last line in the
example ends with a semi-colon. You must follow this format when adding
multiple tape devices to the
st.conf
file.
Configuration Values
The third section contains the values that will be used to configure the tape
devices. It has lines like:
The part of the line before the equal sign (=) is the string that is linked to the
values that will be used to configure a tape device. The second part of the line
contains the configuration values. These values are well defined in the
st
man
page.
If you look at the first two examples in the “Tape Device Identifiers” section,
you will see that both the "ARCHIVE Python 28454" and the "ARCHIVE
Python 29279" lines end with the string "ARCH_Python". This means that the
operating system will configure both tape devices according to the parameters
set in the
ARCH_Python
line.
Note – Each line in the configuration section must start with a unique string.
Also, each line in this section ends in a semi-colon(;).
#ARCH_Python = 1,0x2c,0,0xde39,4,0x00,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,3;
