> I'm thinking of swapping our DLT700 from our Win NT box to one of our Linux
> boxes. I'm assuming it'll just work as a regular SCSI tape drive, right? I'm
> also thinking of buying BRU to make my life easier. Anyone used BRU with a
> DLT?
We use a DLT7000 here with no problems (it works very well :) ). The only
thing we did was increase the static size of the tape I/O buffer first in
linux/drivers/scsi/st_options.h:
--- linux/drivers/scsi/st_options.h.orig Fri Mar 5 12:45:08 1999
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/st_options.h Fri Mar 5 12:45:51 1999
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
#define ST_DEFAULT_BLOCK 0
/* The tape driver buffer size in kilobytes. */
-#define ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS 32
+#define ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS 1024
/* The number of kilobytes of data in the buffer that triggers an
asynchronous write in fixed block mode. See also ST_ASYNC_WRITES
---This allows you to use a bigger DMA I/O buffer without running in to possible memory fragmentation in the < 16MB DMA range when using a buffer bigger than the default size (we had problems with this).
We're not using BRU, but I doubt there will be any problems.
Simon-
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