Re: SCSI tape drive

[James Sneeringer]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Daniel Nichter wrote:
| 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"?

No, the default settings should suffice.  If you wish, however, you can
use mt to modify most settings.

| Am I making things more difficult than they are?

Yes, I think so. :)

-James