Seagate STU62001LW-S Installation Manual page 50

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Leave the "Set delay. . ." and "Set timeout. . ." lines at the

default value. Click on OK and the drive will be installed in the

system database, and devices created. There is no need to

reboot the system.

Now exit SMIT

Notes: We suggest using the AIX commands 'backup' and

Set "Use EXTENDED file marks" to yes.

Set "RESERVE/RELEASE support" to yes

Set "BLOCK SIZE for variable length support

(Num.)" to 0

Set "Density 1" to 0

'restore' when transferring data to and from the Viper

200. These commands transfer data more quickly than

other commands such as tar and cpio. For cpio we

suggest a blocking factor of 128. For tar we suggest

using the –N option and a factor of 128. Some older

systems with poor video controllers may experience a

reduction in performance when using the –v option,

which prints the path names on the standard console

during the backup. Unless there is a real need to see

the filenames as they are backed up we suggest not

using the –v option. For commands that use density

and tape size settings the tape density is 124,000 bpi

and the tape length is 1800 feet.

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