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- From: giltner@pogo.colorado.edu (Jon Giltner)
- Subject: SCSI CAM and third party devices (specifically HP35480A DAT)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.161052.21989@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:10:52 GMT
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- I posted this request a few days ago and got no responses, but I have more
- info now so I figure I'll try again. It wasn't too long ago that Ultrix
- engineers were gushing over the virtues of SCSI CAM in this group. One of you
- should be willing to answer some fairly simple questions.
-
- I would like to select data compression on an HP35480A DAT drive by using
- /dev/rmt0h (an no data compression by using /dev/rmt0l). I don't know what
- type of drive DEC's tlz06 is, but in cam_data.c compression is selected by a
- compression code (either 0x00 or 0x01?) in the device's density table. From
- having a customer support engineer read me some lines of source we concluded
- that the compression code is used in a SCSI mode select that sets the Select
- Data Compression Algorithm byte (byte 14) in the Device Configuration Page
- (Page code 0x10). This apparently does the trick for the tlz06. However, the
- manual for the HP drive says that the Select Data Compression Algorithm field
- is "not supported by the drive and must be cleared to zero."
-
- Instead there is a Data Compression Characteristics Page (Page Code 0x0f -
- which is "reserved" according to the SCSI2 spec ?). In this page there are
- several fields, one is Data Compression Enable, another is Compression
- Algorithm. I see in cam_data.c that there is a mode select table that can be
- set up so that up to eight mode selects can be done for a device on open, but
- it does not appear to be minor number specific - the mode selects will be done
- no matter which device file is used, so this is no better than just flipping
- the compression dip switch on the drive.
-
- --
- Jon Giltner
- Computing and Network Services University of Colorado
- (giltner@spot.Colorado.EDU) Boulder
-