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Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Configuration and Administration Guide     Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Information Library
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Preface

1.  About SAM-QFS

2.  Configuring Storage Devices for Archiving

Task Map: Configuring Storage Devices for Archiving

Adding Tape Devices for Archiving

Files that Contain Configuration Information

How to Add Tape Devices for Archiving (Command Line)

How to Add Tape Drive Interface Target IDs and LUNs for Archiving (Command Line)

How to Add Tape Devices for Archiving (SAM-QFS Manager)

Adding Libraries or Magneto-Optical Drives for Archiving

How to Configure Device Support in SCSI or FC Environments Using SAM-QFS Manager

How to Configure Device Support for a Direct-Attached Library

Recovering After a Direct-Attached Library Fails to Initialize

Verifying and Implementing Configurations

How to Verify That All Devices Are Configured and Implement the Changes

Handling Errors in the st.conf File

3.  Performing Additional SAM-QFS Configuration

4.  Creating Parameters Files for Network-Attached Automated Libraries

5.  Checking the Drive Order in Libraries

6.  Populating the Catalog

7.  Managing Automated Libraries and Manually Loaded Drives

8.  Managing Vendor-Specific Libraries

9.  About Archiving

10.  Configuring the Archiver

11.  Archive Directives (archiver.cmd)

12.  Archive Set Directives (archiver.cmd)

13.  Data Integrity Validation in SAM-QFS

14.  About Releasing

15.  Configuring the Stager

16.  Configuring the Recycler

17.  Advanced SAM-QFS Topics

18.  Using the Sun SAM-Remote Software

Handling Errors in the st.conf File

Errors can occur if the st.conf file is not configured properly during SAM-QFS software installation.

The following messages in the sam-log file indicate that the appropriate changes have not been made to /kernel/drv/st.conf.

May 18 12:38:18 baggins genu-30[374]: Tape device 31 is default
type. Update '/kernel/drv/st.conf'.

The following device log messages correspond to the sam-log message:

1999/05/18 12:34:27*0000 Initialized. tp
1999/05/18 12:34:28*1002 Device is QUANTUM , DLT7000
1999/05/18 12:34:28*1003 Serial CX901S4929, rev 2150
1999/05/18 12:34:28*1005 Known as Linear Tape(lt)
1999/05/18 12:34:32 0000 Attached to process 374
1999/05/18 12:38:18 1006 Slot 1
1999/05/18 12:38:18 3117 Error: Device is type default. Update /kernel/drv/st.conf