Red Hat Linux; Suse Linux; Caldera Unixware - HP StorageWorks SDLT Series Reference Manual

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux provides native drive recognition. Drive files are located in the /dev
directory. Supplemental drivers are not required. The operating system defaults to
a generic SCSI device and to the default settings of the tape drive.
Table 4: Typical Native OS Commands
Task
Tar Write
Tar Read
DD Write
DD Read

SuSe Linux

SuSe Linux provides native drive recognition. Drive files are located in the /dev
directory. Supplemental drivers are not required. The operating system defaults to
a generic SCSI device and to the default settings of the tape drive.
Table 5: Typical Native OS Commands
Task
Tar Write
Tar Read
DD Write
DD Read

Caldera UnixWare

Caldera UnixWare provides native drive recognition. Supplemental drivers are not
required. The operating system defaults to a generic SCSI device and to the
default settings of the tape drive.
The SDLT drive provides compression so that the storage capability for tapes can
be effectively doubled when the SDLT drive has been instructed to turn on
compaction. This is known as hardware compaction and should be used instead of
the software compaction that is sometimes provided by software products.
SDLT Tape Drives Reference Guide
Command
tar cvf /dev/st0 ./largefile
tar xvf /dev/st0
dd if=./largefile of=//dev/st0 bs=51
dd if=//dev/st0 of=./largefile bs=512
Command
tar cvf /dev/st0 ./largefile
tar xvf /dev/st0
dd if=./largefile of=/dev/st0 bs=512
dd if=/dev/st0 of=./largefile bs=512
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