buchanan@cs.ubc.ca (John Buchanan) (03/06/90)
Has any one managed to hook up a 3rd party exabyte drive to a sgi box? I just spend a whole day going through the documentation and I cannot seem to find the exact set of commands to issue. Since I am waiting for a cable I have been forced to hack with out touching the computer :-(, probably safer in the long run :-). My guess is that I simply set it up as a quarter inch drive and let the SCSI driver handle the rest. This is probably incorrect, but it seems like a good place to start. Does any one have any better advise? ========================================================================= | |===============================| | John Buchanan (juancho) | buchanan@cs.ubc.ca | | Imager Manager |===============================| | Imager | (604) 228-2218 | | Department of Computer Science |===============================| | University of British Columbia | Standard disclaimer | | Vancouver, BC, Canada | included in this | | | box, right here. | =========================================================================
markb@denali.sgi.com (Mark Bradley) (03/07/90)
In article <7016@ubc-cs.UUCP>, buchanan@cs.ubc.ca (John Buchanan) writes: > My guess is that I simply set it up as a quarter inch drive and let the > SCSI driver handle the rest. This is probably incorrect, but it seems like > a good place to start. Does any one have any better advise? > 1st, be running 3.2 s/w release. Next, address the drive as 6, preferably. Next, look in /dev/mt. There will be several devices with 6 as the address. there are nr, ns, and v and combinations thereof. All will talk to the Exabyte drive... There are *some* drives that give back a vendor specific string on an inquiry, and there is some problem talking to the drive if that is so, as the s/w has no way of `knowing' what the heck it is. markb -- Mark Bradley "Faster, faster, until the thrill of I/O Subsystems speed overcomes the fear of death." Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Mountain View, CA 94039-7311 ---Hunter S. Thompson Disclaimer: Anything I say is my opinion. If someone else wants to use it, it will cost...