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18 Sun StorEdge DLT8000 Tape Drive Installation and User’s Guide • February 2001

Understanding the st.conf File

The beginning of the st.conf file contains values you can use to configure third-

party or other unsupported tape drives. These values are divided into three sections:

■ tape-config-list

■ Tape device identifiers

■ Configuration values

tape-config-list

The line:

indicates the start of values that the operating environment will use to configure

previously unsupported tape devices.

Note – There can be only one active (uncommented) tape-config-list= line in

the st.conf file.

Tape Device Identifiers

The next section includes lines like:

and ends with a line like:

where:

#tape-config-list=

# “ARCHIVE Python 28454”,“Archive Python 4mm Helical Scan”,“ARCH_Python”,

# “ARCHIVE Python 29279”,”Archive Python 4mm DAT Stacker”,”ARCH_Python”,

# “\076\000”, “Fujitsu 1/2\”Cartridge”, “Fujitsu_half”;