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- From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Fast search on 8500 drives
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.093133@se05.wg2.waii.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:31:33 GMT
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- Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products
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- SunOS 4.1.2 supports the Exabyte 8500 drives ... unfortunetly, they forgot
- to enable the fast search capability .... my search time to near-EOT dropped
- from 1 hr to about 50 sec ...
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- in /sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c ....
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- Change line 126 to add: | ST_KNOWS_EOD
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- [this line will have ST_VARIABLE|ST_BSF etc ...
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- This is the statement about 8500 drives. regen the kernel and install.
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- Douglas L. Acker
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- Western Geophysical Exploration Products
- Systems Engineer
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- Email (internal): acker Phone: 713-964-6128
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