I'm planning to using an internal Ultra SCSI tape drive (probably
some Seagate/Conner drive on the BusLogic/Mylex BT-948 Ultra
SCSI adapter) with Linux 2.2.9. I know the kernel handles SCSI
tape drives, but how? I skimmed over
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.st and it talks about being
a generic driver, letting the admin set the tape parameters they
want, etc. When I get my tape drive, how am I to know its parameters,
or do I need to know? For example, will I have to specify my tapes
"maximum number of scatter/gather segments" and "write threshold"?
Am I making things more difficult than they are?
Thanks (again),
Daniel
