Johann writes: >Wow, an answer directly from Plasmon, that's nice. :-) On my own time at the weekend, but I like to help... :-) >I've already got the FUSE driver (udofs-1.1-92.i386.rpm, based on >FUSE 1.4, is this current?!). That's the latest release, yes. We're working on a new release at the moment. >It is nice for a standalone drive, but we use a SCSI robotic changer >in conjunction with an HSM system (Legato DiskXtender 2.9) which >needs some kind of direct access to the drive. It probes for >/dev/nst*, but I guess /dev/sd* would also work. Ah, OK. >I know this exact configuration is not officially supported, but I'm a bit >dissapointed that the limiting factor seems to be the Linux kernel. If I >don't find a solution, it will probably become a Solaris/SPARC solution next >week. :-( :-( The problem (for us) is the hardware page size on i386. On an architecture with a larger native page size (e.g. Alpha, sparc64), I'd expect you'd be able to simply patch the sd driver to allow 8KB support. A naive early attempt to do exactly that on i386 showed up page size issues in the VM/block layer underneath, and we left it alone at that point. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@xxxxxxxxxx Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
