Hi Konstantin,
the usability (on ANY system) pretty much depends on the way you talk to the jukebox. The ones that I know have a SCSI-ID for the changer (the controller that handles the changer mechanism) and one (or more) SCSI-ID(s) for the drive(s) in the jukebox. I am sure, you can easily talk to the drive(s) in the jukebox by loading the appropriate driver for the specific medium (i.e. MO, WORM, or tape, which you should be ablo to talk to in the normal manner you talk to ANY tape on your system, etc.) though I don't know (yet) of any WORM driver for Suse. For the changer, you surely need a (some kind of) specific driver or software product (such as backup-software) that support this specific changer-mechanism. For example, I once had to put an EXABYTE Tape jukebox onto an AIX-system and this was pretty easy once I found out, that the BACKUP-software itself provided the driver for the changer. I have a changer as well but not (yet, as so much of my hardware) attached to Suse-Linux. When I was running Solaris in the older days, I found out that there are companies that develop and sell drivers for specific changers. This was true for a MO (Magnto-optical) disk-changer manufactured by HP. So, since I got the SSA-Array running on SuSE-Linux and this is a somewhat more exotic device than a 'changer' (but has a LUN (Logical Unit Number that can split a SCSI-ID into 8 subdevices) , for each drive and is, in that way, easy to manage), I am sure, there IS support for chagers in Linuxland somewhere. Not a lot of information, but hopefully a little useful. Matthias Am Freitag 12 April 2002 08:12 schrieben Sie: > Hi folks, > this mail by Konstantin unintentionally only reached me. > I don't know nothing about this hardware... Can anybody help him? > > -Steffen > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Juckebox on SPARC > > > Hi all! > I've must to install SuSE on my TATUNG Compstation U2 ( 2 x > UltraSPARC 200Mh ). But i got some questions here. This > workstation is connected with the two NEC Juckeboxes, each has 60 > media slots. So... is it possible to make them work on Suse? > Sorry....but i'm familiar only with i386, and this is my first > time when i'm working with SPARC, thats why i've got so many > maybe stupid questions. > > Regards...., Konstantin. -- ******************************************************************* **** SMS Softwaretechnik Matthias Schulz Lange Strasse 44 70794 Filderstadt Tel: +49-7000-17 17 17 17 ******************************************************************* **** ------------------------------------------------------- -- *********************************************************************** SMS Softwaretechnik Matthias Schulz Lange Strasse 44 70794 Filderstadt Tel: +49-7000-17 17 17 17 *********************************************************************** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
