Tape drive vendor information on Solaris 8

Wednesday, 7. 06. 2006  –  Category: all, sw

An ancient box, groaning under the weight of years of developer abuse, has a failing tape drive. How hard is it to get vendor information out of the OS? Easy, I thought, just use prtconf and look for the st paragraph: st, instance #0 (driver not attached) System properties: name <lun> length <4> value <0×00000000>. [...]