What Next; Mtcan And Constants Values - HP C1537A Technical Reference Manual

What Next?

MTCAN and Constants Values

30 Silicon Graphics (SGI)
Note that this only applies for HP C1537A and HP C1557A drives.
3 For IRIX 6.2 only, the entry should end with:
0, (u_char *)0 },
Once the device files have been created, you should confirm that your new
tape drive is working properly.
provides instructions on backing up and restoring a sample file to test your
installation.
The values have the following functions:
MTCAN
MTCAN value
Append to existing tape data
APPEND
Backspace file
BSF
Backspace record
BSR
Determine if a tape cartridge is present
CHKRDY
Change density and/or fixed to variable at points other than
CHTYPEANY
beginning of tape
Compression
COMPRESS
Multiple partitions
PART
Prevent media removal
PREV
Seek to a particular block
SEEK
Setmarks
SETMK
Fixed block size can be set
SETSZ
Suppress illegal length indicators
SILI
Space to EOD (end of data)
SPEOD
Synchronous mode SCSI
SYNC
Chapter 8, "Verifying the Installation"
Capability Enabled