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While looking at Fedora's build spec for mt-st, I saw that they recode the README.stinit file to UTF-8; this makes a lot of sense, so let's recode all non-UTF files in UTF-8.
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The program stinit is meant for initializing of SCSI tape drive modes
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at system startup, when the tape driver module is loaded, or when new
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tape drivers are initialized using
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echo "scsi add-single-device x y z v" >/proc/scsi/scsi
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or (with 2.6 kernels)
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echo "y z v" > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostx/scan
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where x=host y=channel z=id v=lun (- is wild card for 2.6).
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The parameters used in initialization of a tape drive are fetched from
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a text file. The parameter file is indexed by the inquiry data
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returned by the drive, i.e., the parameters are defined by the drive
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manufacturer, model, etc. This means that the initialization for a
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drive does not depend on its hardware address. A similar method is
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used by most Unices either within the kernel or outside the kernel.
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The contents of the configuration file and the command line parameters
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are defined in the man page stinit.8. A sample configuration file
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stinit.def.examples is included in this distribution. It can be used as
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example when writing descriptions for the tape drives in a
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system. NOTE that the examples by no means specify what are the
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"correct" parameters for different types of devices.
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The program is configured for maximum of 32 tapes and 4 modes (the
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default Linux configuration). If the kernel is configured for
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different number of tape modes, the definitions MAX_TAPES and
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NBR_MODES in stinit.c should be configured accordingly. (With 8 bit
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minor numbers NBR_MODES * MAX_TAPES == 128.)
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The files:
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stinit.c - the program source code
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stinit.8 - the man page
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stinit.def.examples - a file containing example definitions for
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imaginary tape drives
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Makefile - a sample makefile for the program
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README.stinit - this file
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Changes in version 1.1:
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- fix mode number printing in verbose mode (from Martin Jacobs)
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- add support for the sili option
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Changes in version 0.9b:
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- fix back out to SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND for 2.4 kernels (2.4 uses errno
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EINVAL for unsupported ioctls)
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Changes in version 0.9:
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- try first SG_IO for inquiry, if the ioctl fails, try SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
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- error checking for SG_IO is very simplistic for now
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Changes in version 0.8:
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- in devfs, /dev/tapes/tape<n> does not match <n>th drive after rmmoding
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and insmodding the st driver; fix provided by Philippe Troin
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- put the man page into /usr/share/man/man8
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- counts can use the k, M, or G postfix
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Changes in version 0.7:
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- the directory scanning for tape devices is restricted to files with
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certain names in some directories to avoid triggering automatic
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module loading for device that don't exist (original patch from
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Philippe Troin)
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- support for devfs (/dev/tapes) added
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- logging bug fixes
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- add setting the cleaning request parameter
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- add setting the no-wait (immediate) bit
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Changes in version 0.6:
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- fix the bug with whitespace at the beginning of lines
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- use O_NONBLOCK to open the tape (anticipate kernel change)
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Initial version 0.5.
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April 27, 2008 Kai Mäkisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
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