Quantum LTO-2 User Manual

Chapter 6  UNIX Settings
Configuring for Linux

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LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive User’s Guide

When the process takes you back to the two Main Menu screens, 

press 

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When asked to create a new kernel, enter 

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When asked if you want the new kernel to boot by default press 

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When asked if you want the kernel environment to be rebuilt press 

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Reboot the system.     

   

Configuring for Linux

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Before installing the LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive, ensure that the 

requisite SCSI controllers and device drivers are installed on your system.
To find existing SCSI controllers execute the command: 

Not all of the SCO “tape” commands will operate or be 

applicable to the LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive (execute the 

command .man tape. for the specifics on how the tape 

command works). The following tape commands are not 

available for use with the LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive: 

getcomp, setcomp (the LTO-2 drives will always compress the 

data before writing the data to tape under SCO Open Server 

5.0.x), partition, setpart, getpart, getspeed, setspeed, rsm, 

wsm. The following tape commands are available for use with 

the LTO-2 Half-Height Tape Drive: status, load, reset, rewind, 

retention, getblk, setblk, unload, eod. 

When using the GUI Backup Manager utility set the block size 

to 32768 minimum, 65536 preferred. When using commands 

such as tar we suggest using the tape command to set the 

block size to 512 and then using a blocking factor of 80 for the 

tar command. For commands that use density and tape size 

settings the tape density is 124,000 bpi and the tape length is 
1800 feet.