Vendor Id - IBM DDS Gen 5 User Manual

Table of Contents

Advertisement

Switches 5 through 8 configure the internal tape drive for a host operating system.
By default, these switches are all ON. This setting configures the drive for a
®
Microsoft
Windows
To use the internal tape drive with a different operating system, set switches 5
through 8 to select the appropriate settings.
The following table shows the supported operating systems and their
corresponding settings.
Host
Operating
Systems
Driver
Windows
IBMDAT5
Windows
4MMDAT
Novell 5.x
NWTAPE
(pre
11/03/99)
Novell 5.x
NWTAPE
(post
11/03/99)
DEC UNIX --
Sun Unix
--
SGI
--
HP-UX
--
IBM AIX
--
Linux
--
SCO
--
SCO
--
UnixWare
7.x

Vendor ID

Settings:
Switch 10 determines the vendor ID that the internal tape drive returns when it
receives a SCSI "Inquiry" command. By default, the drive returns "IBM DDS
Gen5".
Setting switch 10 to the OFF position configures the drive to return "Archive
Python".
®
operating system.
Switches
SW5
SW6
ON
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
ON
Switch 10 ON = Vendor ID is "IBM DDS
Gen5" (default)
Switch 10 OFF = Vendor ID is "Archive
PYTHON"
SW7
SW8
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
ON
OFF
ON
ON
Chapter 2. Installation
SW10
ON
OFF
---
---
---
---
---
---
---
---
---
---
7

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading

Table of Contents