Using Multiple Dat-Links - Townshend Computer Tools DAT-Link User Manual

Chapter 9

Using Multiple DAT-Links

DAT-Link
Multiple devices may be connected to a single computer to provide more
than 2 channels of audio input and output by using di erent SCSI ID's for each
DAT-Links
device. Up to 7
present. Also, multiple hosts on the same network can have
In both cases all of the units can be accessed from anywhere on the network.
DAT-Links
To use multiple
described in Section 2.4. The device les created should be called
/dev/datlink1
, , with each device le created to correspond with a
: : :
with a di erent SCSI ID. The NetAudio server, described in the Chapter 3, uses
/dev/datlink0
by default, but this can be overridden by using the
set the unit number. For example,
netaudiod -u 1
will start a server which communicates with a single
datlink0
instead of the default,
A NetAudio server must be started as described above for each
nected. As described in Section 3.1, this can be automated by placing commands
in the system startup le.
Client programs specify which
environment variable or the setting of the
DIO DEVICE
program. Section 3.2 described these options in more detail.
can be placed on a single SCSI bus if no other devices are
DAT-Link
on a single host, each
.
DAT-Link
to use by either examining the
DAT-Links
connected.
should be installed as
/dev/datlink0
DAT-Link
option to
-u
datlink1
DAT-Link
using
DAT-Link
con-
AU-
option available in each
-u
,