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determining the SCSI id (Linux)
Look at the output of dmesg to find out what SCSI channel number is used for each connection.
To find out the SCSI IDs in use on each channel:
run cat /proc/scsi/scsi
This will produce output similar to the following for each device:
Attached devices:
Host: SCSI0 Channel:00 Id:00 Lun:00
Vendor: HP Model
Type:
Look at the Id information to establish which Ids are in use.
configuring for an SCO system
To install the appropriate driver and device files on a SCO system, perform the following steps:
1Run ‘mkdev tape’ as root.
2Select ‘Configure SCSI tape drive’.
3Select ‘Install tape drive’.
4Select the appropriate SCSI adapter.
5Select the appropriate SCSI bus.
6Select the Target ID to match the SCSI ID set on the back of the drive.
7Select the LUN to be 0.
8Enter ‘y’ to update the SCSI configuration.
9Enter the following details:
Vendor identification string: | BNCHMARKDLT1 |
SCSI version to which the drive conforms: 2 | |
Response Data Format | 2 |
Generic device: | 1 |
This procedure will automatically make the drive the default device, even if another device is already configured.
You may want to edit /etc/conf/pack.c/stp/space.c to change the filemark handling on close. By default, it writes only one filemark for a write filemark ioctl(). See the comments in the space.c file.
10Enter ‘q’ to leave unchanged the boot string that is displayed when the system is rebooted.
11Enter ‘q’ to return to the Main Menu.
12Enter ‘q’ to quit.
13You are now prompted to rebuild the kernel and the kernel environment (which includes the device files). Perform both steps by answering ‘y’ when prompted, and select the new kernel to be booted by default.
You can now use one of the following files, as appropriate, for backup operations:
/dev/nrStpX if you require a
where X is the instance number as assigned to the drive by the operating system (0 is the first device, 1 is the second, and so on).
controlling compression with SCO
Because SCO does not have any
Command | Compression | Decompression |
tape | disabled | disabled |
tape | enabled | disabled |
tape | disabled | enabled |
tape | enabled | enabled |
If you have multiple drives, you must specify the appropriate device files in the command. For example:
% tape
Use ‘tape getcomp’ to tell you the current status of the drive.
NOTE: Do not use the SCO ‘mt’ utility. This is obsolete, and does not perform the same function as ‘mt’ on other platforms. Use ‘tape’ to achieve the same result.
improving performance through block size on SCO
In order to improve performance, specify larger blocking factors for cpio and tar. Use the ‘b’ option of tar with an argument of 20 or use the ‘B’ option of cpio. For example:
% tar cvbf 20 /dev/rStpY ./*
or
%find /
%find / -print cpio -ocB > /dev/rStpY
In each case, Y is the instance number as assigned to the drive by the operating system (0 is the first device, 1 is the second, and so on).
Alternatively, you can use the tape command as follows:
% tape -a 32768 setblk <device file>
This explicitly sets the block size used for the drive when you are using
configuring for Linux systems
No changes are needed to support DLT1 on Linux platforms, however you should ensure that you have the relevant drivers loaded.
To see the device drivers loaded currently, execute an lsmod command, this will give output like:
Module Size Used by sgm 4376 1
st 24656 0 ncr53c8xx 52096 1 aic7xxx 136184 2
The lines of interest here are:
st | This is the tape driver. Its presence in the output of the lsmod |
| command shows that the tape driver is loaded. |
ncr53c8xx This is a SCSI chipset driver for the LSI Logic family of HBAs (amongst others).
aix7xxx This is a SCSI chipset driver for the Adaptec 7xxx chipset family (such as Adaptec 2940UW).
In order to communicate with a tape device, the operating system needs to have drivers for the tape and the underlying transport mechanism (the host bus adaptor) loaded. Ensure that both are available as either loadable modules (for example, usable with insmod and visible with lsmod) or are statically built into your kernel.
In order to determine if the drive has been detected by the tape driver at module load time, execute:
dmesg grep "st"
This should find a number of lines. One should look like:
Detected SCSI tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
To load the tape driver module if it is not loaded as above, execute:
insmod st
to load it. This should happen naturally if your system is rebooted after attaching the drive.
In order to enable large transfers under Linux (>64 KB per write), edit the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/st_options.h and change the definition
of ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS.
If you want requests to space to end of data to be faster, you should also enable ST_FAST_MTEOM in the same file. After changing this file, rebuild the modules and install the new binary. At the very least, this requires:
make modules
make modules_install
from the /usr/src/linux directory. See your kernel documentation.