Daniel Nichter wrote:
>
> 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?
Daniel,
You're making it MUCH harder than you need to. SCSI drives just plug in
a work, for the most part. Of course, if you REALLY want to control the
drive, you could get the mt-st-0.5b stuff and use the new stinit
functions to really use the drives features.
As for the scatter-gather, mailboxes, write threshold, etc. These are
things that you should never need to worry about with today's
high-quality tape devices
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