hi all,
mostly for redhat users and the search engine and faq.
redhat 7.2 running on an ibm netfinity 3000 server with an ibm travan drive
oem'd by seagate. controller is an adaptec aha-2940uw running a proprietary
ibm bios.
results varied from other posts for the stt20000n. additionally, i ran into
some issues with redhat 7.2 with respect to the non-rewinding
non-compressing device name for st0:
./tapetype -f /dev/st0m
wrote 308034 32Kb blocks in 942 files in 14776 seconds (short write)
wrote 307581 32Kb blocks in 1887 files in 16872 seconds (short write)
define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
comment "just produced by tapetype program"
length 9639 mbytes
filemark 15 kbytes
speed 625 kps
}
as i mentioned, redat didn't work rightaway with /dev/st0m, so i had to to
provide a stinit.def in /etc and then ran stinit from rc.local:
manufacturer=Seagate model="STT20000N" revision="7A61" {
scsi2logical=1
can-bsr can-partitions auto-lock
mode1 blocksize=0 compression=1
mode2 blocksize=1024 compression=1
mode3 blocksize=0 compression=0
mode4 blocksize=1024 compression=0
}
have other redhat users found problems with the /dev mknod names delivered
with the distribution?
cheers
christopher cuse
i'm working on bandwidth conservation now that most tuna are dolphin safe
