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-These are notes specific to using sst with Amanda on Solaris.
-
-John R. Jackson
-21-Nov-2000
-
-==============
-Access as root
-==============
-
-A change was made to the sst.c source code to allow access from non-root
-users.  It #if's out a call to drv_priv() that checked against UID 0
-(look for EPERM in the code).  Since Amanda does not normally run as
-root, this was a problem.  Use the file system permissions on /dev/rsst*
-to control access.
-
-========================
-Using the GNU C compiler
-========================
-
-If you build sst with the GNU C compiler for a 32 bit kernel (see below
-for 64 bit kernel notes), you may get warnings like this:
-
-  warning: passing arg 1 of `timeout' from incompatible pointer type
-  .../include/va-sparc.h:29: warning: `va_start' redefined
-  .../include/va-sparc.h:29: warning: `va_end' redefined
-  .../include/va-sparc.h:29: warning: `va_arg' redefined
-  .../include/stdarg.h:163: warning: redefinition of `va_list'
-
-These may all be ignored.
-
-A change was made to the sst.c source code to get around the following
-error:
-
-  `__builtin_va_alist' undeclared
-
-It adds a #include of stdarg.h if __GNUC__ is #define'd.
-
-============================
-Building for a 64 bit kernel
-============================
-
-The sst driver build instructions are for a 32 bit kernel.  If you want
-to build for a 64 bit kernel, compile it like this:
-
-  cc -D_KERNEL -D_SYSCALL32 -xarch=v9 -c sst.c
-
-Drivers for 64 bit kernels go in /usr/kernel/drv/sparcv9 instead of
-/usr/kernel/drv.  However their .conf files still go in /usr/kernel/drv,
-regardless of bit size.
-
-At the time this is being written, only the Sun C compiler is able to
-(reliably) build kernel drivers for 64 bit architectures.  GNU C is not
-yet up to the task.
-
-==================
-Using sgen instead
-==================
-
-Solaris 8 comes with a new driver, sgen, that provides raw SCSI access
-ala sst, but with (presumably) better long term support (since sst is
-intended only as a development starting point).  At the time this is
-being written, the chg-scsi changer reportedly works with sgen, but be
-sure and read the sgen(7D) man page for instructions on setting it up.
-In particular, you must edit sgen.conf to get the device entries created.
-Also, the default permissions only allow root access, so you'll need to
-open them up just enough to allow Amanda to issue commands.