User's Guide

Scorpion 40 configurations for Windows NT, Novell, and UNIX 11

tpsc_default_dens_count, tpsc_default_hwg_dens_names,

tpsc_default_alias_dens_names,

{0},0,0,0,

0, (u_char *)0 },

2.Edit the file

/dev/MAKEDEV.d/TPS_base

and make the following

modification (this modification is not required on systems running

IRIX 6.4 or 6.5).

Locate the area of code which deals with DAT drives. This starts

with:

*Drive?type:*DAT*

Then insert the following text before or after the similar entries for

other supported devices:

*Device:*DAT*06240*) # DAT drive with compression

mdev=`expr $mdev + 8`;

mknod ${prf}$1c c ${C_TPS} $mdev;

;;

3.Restart the system. Irix 6.x will detect the changes made and

automatically rebuild the kernel on startup.

Alternatively, you could manually rebuild the kernel using the

autoconfig command (see the autoconfig man page for details ),

then reboot the system again to bring the changes into effect.

Troubleshooting installations on the SGI platform

Checking the drive's inquiry string

It may be useful to confirm the drive’s inquiry string. This is done

using the

command. The following command line will retrieve the

Inquiry string and other status data from a drive on SCSI bus 1, ID 4.

mt -f /dev/rmt/tps1d4 status

System Interchange Problems

If the following error appears when trying to restore a cpio archive

from another system, it is likely that a mistake was made in the

installation sequence in section 7.1 above:

Byte swapped Data - re-try with correct device