St.conf parameters for SDLT tape drive / Solaris 8

Hello,
I need the parameters for the SDLT tape drive from Tandberg for the st kernel driver. In the st.conf there is no entry for Tandberg SDLT.
With the st.conf, shipped with Solaris 8 10/01, my V880 crashes when accessing the SDLT with the mt command.
Does anyone here have the parameters?
Thanks in advance
Thomas M�ller
department manager IT
Christ GmbH
Germany

Hi Thomas,
Actually, a bug 4495684 has been filed to fix this issue. A 2.6, 7,
8 and SOlaris 9 patch should come out soon that will add this entry
in the st.conf.
I constructed this entries from the bug description. Try if it works.
It should else wait for the patch. Any way, please let me know
the results.
"QUANTUM Super DLT", "Quantum Super DLT", "SDLT-data";
SDLT-data = 1,0x38,0,0x8619,4,0x88,0x89,0x90,0x91,3;
Good Luck !!!
Shridhar

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