cliff@wesson.phys.ucalgary.ca (Cliff Marcellus) (05/14/91)
I'm looking at putting some 8mm and/or dat tape drives on our set of RS-2030's, RS-3230's, and RC-3230's. Could someone out there who has already done this please let me know the following : - which SCSI address did you us? (did you simply replace the QIC at 6? or can both happily live on the same system?) - which devices (/dev/mt/???) address these drives - any tape type-specific parameters such as tape-length and recording density for tools such as 'dump', 'tar', 'dd', ... ? Many Thanks In Advance! Cliff -- Cliff Marcellus | Internet : cliff@phys.ucalgary.ca Department of Physics and Astronomy | SPAN : CANCAL::CLIFF The University of Calgary OPINIONS EXPRESSED WITHIN ARE MY OWN AND NOT THOSE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese) (05/15/91)
In article <1991May14.135758.18797@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> cliff@phys.ucalgary.ca writes: >I'm looking at putting some 8mm and/or dat tape drives on our set >of RS-2030's, RS-3230's, and RC-3230's. Could someone out there >who has already done this please let me know the following : > > - which SCSI address did you us? (did you simply replace the > QIC at 6? or can both happily live on the same system?) Both live quite happily. The convention is: 0 - system disk 1 - data disk 2 - data disk 3 - data disk 4 - data disk or high-capacity tape 5 - data disk or 1/2" tape 6 - QIC tape 7 - host adapter > - which devices (/dev/mt/???) address these drives /dev/[r]mt/hc[04] > - any tape type-specific parameters such as tape-length > and recording density for tools such as 'dump', 'tar', > 'dd', ... ? Nothing special for dd, tar, cpio. A recommendation for parameters for the size and density for dump.ffs is found on the man page. -- ROGER B.A. KLORESE MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. MS 6-05 930 DeGuigne Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94088 +1 408 524-7421 rogerk@mips.COM {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk "What the public reproaches you for -- cultivate it! It's you." - Jean Cocteau