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20-40 Gbyte SPARCstorage DLT4000 Tape Drive Manual—February 1997
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Modifying the
st.conf
file
Read this entire procedure before editing the
st.conf
file.
Note – The syntax is critical. Verify the placement of commas, semicolons, and
beginning and ending quotation marks.
1. Become superuser.
2. Make a copy of the original
st.conf
file as a backup (
st.conf.old
).
3. Edit the
st.conf
file.
Using an editor, scroll through the
st.conf
file to the following line:
a. Delete the
#
character that begins the line, if it hasn't already been
removed.
b. Using the editor, continue to scroll until you come to the end of the
“Tape Device Identifiers” section.
The line will look something like:
c. On the next line, add the following entry exactly as shown:
% su
Password:
#
#cp /kernel/drv/st.conf /kernel/drv/st.conf.old
#tape-config-list=
#
"\076\000","Fujitsu 1/2\" Cartridge", "Fujitsu_half";
“SUN DLT4000”, “Quantum DLT 4000”, “QDLT”;
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