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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: DAT SCSI COMMANDS ON SGI INDIGO
- Message-ID: <so6hdbk@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:48:40 GMT
- References: <By6KM8.ErA@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <By6KM8.ErA@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, MACRVM.NRL.NAVY.MIL (JEFF JAMES) writes:
- >
- > I have an SGI Iris Indigo Elan with a DAT drive installed and would like
- > to operate the drive with raw SCSI commands. I can write to the drive and
- > rewind the tape as well as read using the SCSI commands in dslib.h but there
- > are several commands missing that control the tape such as functions for
- > writing file marks, seeking data on the tape and writing EOT's. Any info on
- > this subject would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > PS Any info on general DAT storage formats would be appreciated.
- >
- >
- > Thanks ,
- >
- > Jeff James
-
- dslib is a sample library. If you want enhancements you have to
- do it yourself. The source code is all in a subdirectory of
- /usr/people/4Dgifts. You should have litte trouble adding other
- SCSI commands by following the example of the ones that are
- already there.
-
- jeremy
-