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-Linux - Optical Disk HOWTO
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-!!!Linux - Optical Disk HOWTO
-
-!!Skip Rye,
-abr@preferred.comv1.6, 11 December 1998
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-
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-''This document describes the installation and configuration of
-optical disk drives for Linux. Please, if any one has experiences with optical storage under Linux, send it and I will update it in SGML and forward it to the Linux community. Please let me know if it's OK to include your E-mail address!''
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-!!1. Disclaimer
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-
-
-
-!!2. Copyright
-
-
-*2.1 LF1000 mini-HOWTO
-
-*2.2 Optical Disk-HOWTO
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-
-
-
-
-!!3. Phase Change Optical Technology
-
-
-*3.1 Introduction
-
-*3.2 Panasonic LF1000
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-*3.3 Additional Configuration concerns by Jeff Rooze
-
-
-
-
-
-!!4. Magneto Optical Technology
-
-
-*4.1 Introduction
-
-*4.2 Olympus, Epson, Mitsubishi MK230LK3 - Stephan Shuichi Haupt
-
-*4.3 Fujitsu DynaMO 640 - Phil Garcia
-
-*4.4 Panasonic LF-7010 - Philip Kerr
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-
-
-
-
-!!5. Optical jukeboxes
-
-
-*5.1 Maxoptix 520 - Zed Shaw
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-
-!!1. Disclaimer
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-
-
-
-Neither the author nor the distributors, or any other contributor of this HOWTO are in any way
-responsible for physical, financial, moral or any other type of damage
-incurred by following the suggestions in this text.
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-
-!!2. Copyright
-
-
-The "Optical Disk-HOWTO" and "LF1000 mini-HOWTO" are copyrighted.
-
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-
-
-!!2.1 LF1000 mini-HOWTO
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-(C) 1996,1997 by Skip Rye, abr@brspc_0064.msd.ray.com
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-!!2.2 Optical Disk-HOWTO
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-(C) 1997,1998 by Skip Rye, abr@preferred.com
-
-
-Linux HOWTO documents may be reproduced and
-distributed in whole or in part, in any medium physical or electronic, as long
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-Greg Hankins, the Linux HOWTO coordinator, at gregh@sunsite.unc.edu.
-You may finger his address for phone number and additional contact
-information.
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-
-!!3. Phase Change Optical Technology
-
-
-
-
-!!3.1 Introduction
-
-
-
-Optical Phase Change technology is used to create "In Phase" or "Out of
-Phase" bits on a special media for phase change writing. The drive uses a
-LASER of different power levels or LASER intensities to produce this effect.
-One power level allows the media to flow into a crystalline form while the
-other creates an "Out of Phase" condition. The crystallized areas reflect the
-read Lasers beam with a different coefficient of reflectivity than the
-non-crystallized areas. Thus, data can be read from the disk.
-
-
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-
-
-What makes the phase change optical disk special is that it the disk is
-formated with concentric cylinders or tracks with each track being sectored
-much like a magnetic disk or read/write optical disk. The tracks are very close
-so a lot of data can be stored on a disk. This is different from a CD-ROM in
-that it gives your system the look and feel of a magnetic disk. CD-ROMs
-have a spiraling track much like a audio record. Having tracks and sectors
-alone would not make the phase change drive special from optical disk but the
-drive has some very special properties; The phase change drive allows for
-direct overwrite of data which magneto optical can't do inexpensively and the
-media has the very special property of NOT being susceptible to magnetic
-fields or as sensitive to static discharge which gives the media a very long
-shelf life.
-
-
-
-
-!!3.2 Panasonic LF1000
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-
-
-
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-!POINTS OF INTEREST
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-
-
-
-* Read/Write optical disk.
-*
-
-* Can read CD-ROMs at 4X speed.
-*
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-* Can read Kodak PhotoCDs.
-*
-
-* Media has a 15 Year shelf life.
-*
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-* SCSI-2 Interface.
-*
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-* Track/sector format as opposed to CD-ROMs spiraling record format.
-*
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-* 165ms access time - much better than a tape file restore.
-*
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-* 650Mb data storage per diskette.
-*
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-* Diskettes are about $50 each.
-*
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-
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-
-
-!THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
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-
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-*Optical disk format not compatible with any other disk drive.
-*
-
-*Vendors don't seem to support UNIX very well - marketing is
-targeted for DOS/Windows and Macintosh.
-*
-
-*Do NOT purchase the PD drive which uses the parallel port
-interface - To my knowledge there is no Linux driver for it.
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!Installation
-
-
-The LF1000 is SCSI-2 compatible device. It features a block size of 512 bytes
-and is compatible with the Linux SCSI drivers. This drive was installed on a
-PC compatible AMD 100MHZ 486 with an Adaptec 1542C SCSI bus-master
-controller. To install and mount a disk the following steps were taken;
-
-
-
-
-!Installation steps
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-
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-* Install the drive and set the SCSI address to not interfere with other
-SCSI devices. Reconnect all cabling.
-*
-
-* Boot the computer. Your SCSI controller should note the new drive.
-*
-
-* During the Linux kernel boot, you should see an additional SCSI
-device. In my case, having a magnetic system disk for device /dev/sda
-it shows up as /dev/sdb.
-*
-
-* I did NOT partition the device because fdisk issued an overwrite
-warning and I did not want to change anything from a dosemu
-standpoint.
-*
-
-* mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb
-*
-
-* mkdir /pd
-*
-
-* mount -t ext2 -o ro,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async /dev/sdb /pd -
-Read only
-*
-
-* mount -t ext2 -o defaults /dev/sdb /pd - Mount drive W/R
-*
-
-
-
-''Your ready to "Rock'n'Roll"''
-
-
-
-
-!Usage hints
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-
-
-*The media which comes with the drive is reported be re-writable about
-500,000 times. This means that it is not advisable to install a live operating
-system such as Linux on the phase change optical drive. These live operating
-systems tend to cache processes to and from disk. Over time this can easily
-approach the phase change media life.
-
-*
-
-*Mount drive read only as much as possible.
-
-*
-
-*When writing to the drive do so in large chunks. This will help
-reduce any file fragmentation which will require more read seeks.
-
-*
-
-*This is however an excellent media for backups, gifs, mpeg or storing
-large programs which you don't use that often. The restore from backup is much
-faster that tape. Backups can be performed using the cp -rp command without
-the need for the ftape driver. This however, will replace symbolic links with
-the actual file.
-*
-
-*If while using the PD for writing, You find that the file you just
-wrote to the disk are not there, chances are that the disk write
-protect tab is in write protect mode and you mounted it in read/write mode.
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!!3.3 Additional Configuration concerns by Jeff Rooze
-
-
-
-Hello,
-
-
-I read your article on configuring the Panasonic LF-1000 for
-Linux. I have configured my system so that the optical drive
-has its own device name and the CD-ROM has its own device name.
-This has allowed me to mount either media at any time. I do not
-require any media in the drive when I boot Linux. Also I am using
-the optical drive as an ext2 formatted media.
-
-
-I had a couple of minor difficulties in doing so.
-
-
-
-First, I had configured my hard drive at SCSI ID 6 and my PD
-at SCSI ID 4. (I wanted to have the hard drive at a higher priority
-that the PD). This caused a problem with the Linux SCSI driver. The
-driver scans the SCSI devices from the Lower SCSI id's to the higher
-(eg: 0 .. 6). Consequently my logical device names were assigned
-differently depending on which type of media was installed in the
-PD drive. This caused a big problem. My Linux partition is on my
-SCSI hard drive and the root device name would change! I corrected
-this problem by modifying the software in the kernel SCSI driver to
-scan the devices in reverse order.
-
-
-Second, the distribution Linux kernel does not scan all SCSI LUNS.
-The PD/CD drive has a mode that establishes the CD-ROM at LUN 1 and
-the PD at LUN . This mode is selected by the configuration switches
-on the PD/CD drive. Switch #2 should be down (off?). If this switch
-is up (on?), the signature of the device is dependent upon the media
-that is installed and it only reports this device on LUN . If no
-media is installed I think it defaults to CD-ROM.
-I am using an Future Domain 16-xx SCSI interface card and the
-software in Linux kernel driver supports an optical device signature
-when scanning the LUNS. I assume that this is standard for most of
-the SCSI drivers. I reconfigured the kernel to enable the "scan all
-LUNS" switch. The kernel then assigns different device names for each
-device. The following is an excerpt from by boot log. You will note a
-series of errors in this log. This is because I did not have the
-optical media installed in the drive and the driver was attempting to
-look at the partition table to determine the block size. Fortunately
-it defaults to 512. I am planning on modifying the Future Domain SCSI
-driver to not do this when it detects the optical device.
-
-
-> scsi0 <fdomain>: BIOS version 3.2 at 0xde000 using scsi id 7
-> scsi0 <fdomain>: TMC-18C50 chip at 0x140 irq 12
-> scsi0 : Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI driver, version 5.28
-> scsi : 1 host.
-> Vendor: CONNER Model: CP30545 545MB3.5 Rev: A9AF
-> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
-> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 6, lun
-> Vendor: MATSHITA Model: PD-1 LF-1000 Rev: A109
-> Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02
-> Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, id 4, lun
-> Vendor: MATSHITA Model: PD-1 LF-1000 Rev: A109
-> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
-> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, id 4, lun 1
-> fdomain: Selection failed
-> scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
-> SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda
-> fdomain: REQUEST SENSE Key = 2, Code = 3a, Qualifier =
-> last message repeated 3 times
-> sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
-> sdb : status = , message = 00, host = , driver = 28
-> sdb : extended sense code = 2
-> sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
-> .
-> .
-> .
-> Partition check:
-> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
-> scsidisk I/O error: dev 0810, sector
-> unable to read partition table of device 0810
-
-
-
-
-Third, I modified my file system table (/etc/fstab) to list each
-device but do not attempt to auto mount when booting. I have
-included an excerpt from my fstab. The most important options
-are the noauto, rw(ro), and the checkpass flag.
-
-
-To create a ext2 file system on the PD, I used the command
-"mkfs.ext2 -i 2048 /dev/sdb".
-
-
-
-
-
-# fstab - List of file systems
-#
-# device mount type options dumpfrequency
-checkpass
-/dev/sdb /optd ext2 rw,user,suid,noauto,sync,exec,dev,umask=0 0 2
-/dev/sr0 /dist iso9660 ro,user,suid,noauto,sync,exec,dev 0 2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-After making these changes, I have had no problems with mounting
-either media. All I need to do is to load the media and type
-"mount /optd" or "mount /dist" and the system does all the rest.
-
-
-I hope this information is useful.
-
-
-
-
-
-Jeff
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-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-\ Jeff Rooze -- http://www.treknet.net/~jrooze -- jrooze@treknet.net /
-/ If builders built buildings the way some programmers write \
-\ programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy /
-/ civilization. GERALD WEINBERG \
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-I tried Jeff's suggestion. Here are the steps I performed;
-
-
-*Modify my kernel using "make xconfig" in the /usr/src/linux directory
-and installed it.
-*
-
-*Change the mode jumper on the PD drive to non-DOS mode. I soldered
-a switch across the mode jumper connections and routed it the the
-back panel. I figured out which switch position was the open position
-and labeled this one for DOS. The other position is of course Linux.
-So before I boot my system I decide which OS I'll be using and set the
-switch accordingly. History shows it staying in the Linux position
-more and more.
-*
-
-* Reboot your system. You should now see multiple LUN show up
-during boot for the PD SCSI device number - It works great!!! If you have
-an older kernel modify the "/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/config.in" file.
-*
-
-*Update the fstab for both CD and PD drives.
-*
-
-*Use appropriate mount command.
-*
-
-*"df" to make sure your ready.
-*
-
-
-
-I did try moving my primary SCSI drive to 6 but experienced some
-difficulties. Can't remember exactly what it was but it may have
-been that my controller "Adaptec 1542" with "Corel SCSI" requires a
-bootable disk and SCSI 0 for the BIOS install to work properly with
-DOS. So I switched it back and enjoyed playing with my properly
-install PD drive! With this configuration "workman" - the audio
-CD player util - works fine.
-
-
-
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-
-!!4. Magneto Optical Technology
-
-
-
-
-!!4.1 Introduction
-
-
-
-Magneto optical drives use a "Far field" magnetic field and a laser
-to change polarization of a magnetic media. The media is of such a
-nature that it must be heated to the appropriate temperature before a
-polarization change can happen - this is where the laser comes into play. A
-high power write laser is used to heat the disk surface to the appropriate
-temperature at which time the "Far field" can set the polarization
-on the disk magnetic surface. After a short period of time the disk
-surface cools and "locks" the polarization into place. The read back
-I'm a little fuzzy on - someone please send me the proper wording.
-I think a low power laser is used for read back and the "H" field
-of the disk polarization interacts with the "E" and "H" field of the
-incident laser to produce a reflective polarization which will correspond
-to the disk bit polarization - I hope this is in the ball-park, it's
-certainly no home run. Maybe a total strike out.
-
-
-The use of a laser for polarization change allows the disk bit and
-track densities to be higher than conventional "Flying" magnetic
-heads. The "far field" means no more "head crashes" - that is assuming
-your disk label doesn't peal off during the load or you don't
-leave one of those sticky pads on the disk cartridge. Most media
-allows 650 Megs per platter and on some models both sides of the
-media is used yielding 1.3Gig storage media - you must remove the
-media and flip it over to use the other 650Megs though.
-
-
-
-
-!!4.2 Olympus, Epson, Mitsubishi MK230LK3 - Stephan Shuichi Haupt
-
-
-
-
-">Stephan Shuichi Haupt <stephan@bios.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
-
-
-
-Hi
-I have noticed that there is not much information about
-magneto-optical disks in the howto, which may be due to the fact that
-these are not very popular in general. In Japan, MO drives are very
-common, especially the 3.5' variety with media in 128MB (maybe not
-available anymore), 230MB, and recently 640MB sizes. I suppose there
-is plenty of info on usage of these drives with Linux in Japanese -
-but that does not help most people for some reason ;-) MODs can be
-used very much like any removable media and are handy for smaller
-backups as the media are relatively inexpensive (about 10US$ / 640MB
-as of 10-98). I can only comment on the usage of 230MB drives with
-SCSI interface.
-Drives used: several, no problems encountered (Olympus, Epson, currently
-Mitsubishi MK230LK3). Drives may have strange jumper setting like "Mac
-Mode" or such - naturally, disable.
-If you decide to get a drive, pay attention the the
-cache size - It can speed things up enormously, still speed will be
-soso compared to hard disks, of course.
-SCSI controllers: NCR53C810-based (Asus PCI-200), Adaptec APA-1460A,
-Adaptec AHA2940.
-Just install the drive as you would do with an additional SCSI hard
-disk. It will show up as such. You don't need a disk in the drive when
-booting.
-There are two ways to format the disks:
-a) A bit like a floppy. Just run mkfs on the raw device i.e. something like
-sdb or sdc. I don't recommend this in general (see below).
-b) Like a hard disk. Do fdisk on the raw device and then mkfs on the
-partition as you would for a hard disk (like sdc0, I have never made
-multiple partitions on a MOD).
-What I have not tried is to boot from MOD, yet I cannot see why it
-should not work. I would only recommend it for emergency system
-recovery, however, due to MO drive performance.
-Note: Purchased disks for Doze or Windog may be formatted "like
-floppies" and cannot be used with either O(gre)S right away while MODs
-formatted under linux as hard disks (partition FAT16 / type 6 and
-mkdosfs) will work fine (only tested with NT 3.5/4.). Fdisk will
-issue a warning upon exit that concerned FAT16 partitions and you do
-better to take it seriously (look at the fdisk man-page). The sector
-size will not be automatically set properly for mkdosfs. Use "mkdosfs
--s 8". That came from some Japanese Web site in mid 1995 (Thanks to Ken
-Kawabata for finding and deciphering it). Using the vfat file-system
-with the disks works fine. I have only used FAT/DOSfs or Linux/ext2
-formatted disks so far.
-Additional Note: The media are probably a bit sensitive. Of course to
-magnetic fields, but also to mechanical stress, some formats seem
-to be more fragile than others (Mac format seemingly worst, data loss has
-occurred when dropping disks during sneaker net traffic).
-Though this does not steer anyone through particularly dense
-jungle, it may be nice for completeness.
-Steve
---
-***********************cut*here*or*do*not********************************
-S. Shuichi Haupt
-email stephan@bios.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
-http://www.bios.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~stephan/
----------------- December 11 1998 update from Steve -------------------
-OK, some problems will arise with MO disks occasionally. the safest
-way to avoid them is not to use the disks "off the shelf". trying to
-mount disks can even result in kernel panics. i accidentally tried to
-mount a 640MB disk (format windows95 it said, so maybe FAT32) as -t
-vfat, this is not a thing to try.
-also, 2..x kernels don't support 2048b block size (also 640MB disks).
-a patch for 2..3x kernels seems to float around somewhere in Japan,
-but i have not yet gotten hold of it. here a link that certainly has
-an English description:
-http://elektra.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/~mbuck/linux/patches.html
-or search the u-tokyo.ac.jp domain. the page of the developers is
-hidden somewhere.
-the best way to use these 640MB disks is therefore to do fdisk and
-mkfs first. i have only done this with mke2fs on type 83 partitions:
-mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/sdxy
-i will check it out for FAT16 partitions and mkdosfs when i have some
-spare time and disks.
-my kernel version used is 2.1.124 (for all of the above).
-Steve
---
-***********************cut*here*or*do*not********************************
-Stephan Shuichi
-office: Dept. for Mechano-Informatics, Yoshizawa Lab.
-Faculty for Engineering, University of Tokyo
-Tel 03-3812-2111 ext 6390, FAX 03-5802-2957
-email stephan@bios.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
-http://www.bios.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~stephan/
-private: --
-
-
-
-
-
-!!4.3 Fujitsu DynaMO 640 - Phil Garcia
-
-
-
-
-pgarcia@execpc.com
-
-You've probably already received a number of messages regarding the
-Fujitsu DynaMO 640 - I have the 640SZI, which is the internal version;
-the model number given in a SCSI probe is M2513-MCC3064SS. I recently
-installed this drive practically without a hitch. I say practically
-because the sector size of the 640 MB disks is 2048 bytes, which is
-not supported in the Linux 2..x kernel but is supported in the
-development kernels. A patch for 2..x is available at
-http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~orschaer/mo/
--- also at this site is a patched fdisk to use in conjunction with it.
-Otherwise, installing the drive was no different from installing a
-SCSI hard drive. It runs well, and I'm very happy with it.
-Phil Garcia
-
-
-
-
-
-!!4.4 Panasonic LF-7010 - Philip Kerr
-
-
-
-
-philip_kerr_at_wmc__brsf2@wmcmail.wmc.ac.uk
-
-Dear Skip
-In your Optical HOWTO, you asked for anyone else's experiences of
-installing optical drives under Linux.
-Please find below details of how I managed to get a Panasonic LF-7010
-(SCSI) working on my Sparc Classic.
-I'm using Redhat, 4.2 and 5.1
-Regards
-Philip Kerr
-philip.kerr@wmc.ac.uk
-ps I'm now trying to get the drive to work under Solaris 2.6... it's
-not an easy a job as it was under Linux!!
-------------------------
-plugged the drive in (on id5)...
-powered up the Sparc...
-the following came up....
-scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
-scsi : 1 host.
-Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: WN32162U Rev: 0100
-Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
-Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel , id 3, lun
-Vendor: MATSHITA Model: LF-7010 (00:06) Rev: 1.42
-Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02
-Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel , id 5, lun 0 scsi
-: detected 2 SCSI disks total.
-esp0: target 3
[[period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II
]
-SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4236661 [[2068 MB]
-[[2.1 GB]
-esp0: target 5 [[period 248ns offset 4 4.03MHz synchronous SCSI] sdb :
-READ CAPACITY failed.
-sdb : status = , message = 00, host = , driver = 28 sdb : extended
-sense code = 2
-sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
-sunlance.c:v1.9 21/Aug/96 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
-eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:04:3d:cf
-eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
-Partition check:
-sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8
-sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector , absolute sector 0 unable
-to read partition table
-I edited my fstab, adding the entry for the drive (on sdb)
-==========
-/etc/fstab
-==========
-/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
-/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0
-/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos noauto,user 0
-/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0
-/dev/sdb /mnt/optical ext2 noauto,rw,user 0
-none /proc proc defaults 0
-Then mkfs'ed a blank disc as follows...
-[[root@localhost me]# /sbin/mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb
-mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS .5b, 95/08/09 /dev/sdb is entire
-device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
-Linux ext2 filesystem format
-Filesystem label=
-118320 inodes, 472448 blocks
-23622 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1
-Block size=1024 (log=)
-Fragment size=1024 (log=)
-58 block groups
-8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2040 inodes per group
-Superblock backups stored on blocks:
-8193, 16385, 24577, 32769, 40961, 49153, 57345, 65537, 73729, 81921,
-90113, 98305, 106497, 114689, 122881, 131073, 139265,
-147457,
-155649, 163841, 172033, 180225, 188417, 196609, 204801,
-212993, 221185,
-229377, 237569, 245761, 253953, 262145, 270337, 278529,
-286721, 294913,
-303105, 311297, 319489, 327681, 335873, 344065, 352257,
-360449, 368641,
-376833, 385025, 393217, 401409, 409601, 417793, 425985,
-434177, 442369,
-450561, 458753, 466945
-Writing inode tables: done
-Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
-rebooted...
-mounted the drive...
-I've since then edited the fstab, adding the following mount-point...
-/dev/sdb /mnt/dostical msdos noauto,rw,user 0
-I can now mount ext2 or dos formatted optical carts by mounting either
-optical or dostical.
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-!!5. Optical jukeboxes
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-I have no experience with optical jukeboxes with Linux!!!!
-I have had experiences with Optical jukeboxes under HP-UX. In this
-setup the the jukebox had a SCSI address of it's own. Each slot in
-the jukebox had an associated LUN number. A device name was assigned
-for each disk slot A side and B side. The mount command was run against
-the appropriate device name. I had a jukebox with just one drive and
-16 optical disk slots - 20 Gig. I thought it was going to be a real hassle
-to write a disk mount manager to share this drive among users until
-I discovered you can mount as many disk as you want and the jukebox
-driver takes care of arbitration - what a nice feature. Granted, you
-only want archive type data
here and your overall system configuration
-to be such that not too many processes will be accessing the jukebox at the
-same time. The disk spin down, carriage load, carriage move, carriage unload,
-carriage move to the next disk, carriage next disk load, carriage move,
-optical drive load, and spin up takes about 12 seconds - "seek-from-hell".
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-!!5.1 Maxoptix 520 - Zed Shaw
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-shawz@imap1.asu.edu
-!Zed's Origional E-Mail - Feb 13 1998
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-Hi,
-I was reading your howto (a life saver, thanks) and I was wondering what
-kind of jukebox you were running? I have a Maxoptix 520 Jukebox (20
-disks at 2.6G each, nice!) and I would like to connect it to a Linux box
-and serve the drives up to my users, but I'm having problems accessing
-the individual drives. Currently I can only access the two drives and
-something called MAXLYB which I think is a controller device of some
-sort.
-Basically, I'm wondering if the jukebox you had was the same or similar
-and how you set it up. I know that you did it under HP-UX, but any help
-right now would be nice. Hey, I'll even let you log into my linux
-server if you want to take a look at the jukebox and see what it does.
-You can't beat 52Gig of storage!
-Anyway, I'd really appreciate your help.
-Zed A. Shaw
-Application Systems Analyst
-Arizona State University
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-!Corrospondance with Zed on Mon, 16 Feb 1998:
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-> It sounds like your Maxoptix 520 is a jukebox with two physical disk.
-Yep, that's the one.
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-> All jukeboxes have a carriage controller. This is probably your MAXLYB
-> device.
-> ...
-What I've come to find out is that Maxoptix is pretty stingy when it
-comes to drivers. Apparently, they don't make driver software for any of
-their Jukebox carriage controller interfaces! I don't know how some of
-these companies stay in business. I'm going to pester them again soon,
-but you are right, this thing will need a carriage controller driver to
-operate. The cool thing is that this MX520 (that's the model number of
-the juke) emulates a whole slew of other carriage controllers, so maybe
-one of those other guys has a driver. I'll be looking into that too.
->
-> You might want to get a-hold of Maxoptix and see if they have a install
-> package for your linux kernel version. If not ask them for the programmers
-> specification for the carriage controller and maybe we can write one!
->
-Hey, if I can't find any driver software, and I can convince Maxoptix to
-give me the specs, I'd be more than glad to write a driver. I'd could
-sure use the help too since I haven't got enough time to do it on my
-own. Also, do you know of anyone else doing this that we might be able
-to hack off of?
-> Any information you find, let me know and we will roll the information
-> into the Optical HOWTO, acknowledgments of course!
->
-Sure, but let me get some new information first. So far things are
-looking pretty bleak.
->
-> >Basically, I'm wondering if the jukebox you had was the same or similar
-> >and how you set it up. I know that you did it under HP-UX, but any help
-> >right now would be nice. Hey, I'll even let you log into my linux
-> >server if you want to take a look at the jukebox and see what it does.
-> >You can't beat 52Gig of storage!
->
-> Nice. At home I can use PPP to mount my 84 platter HP-UX jukebox.
-> It's slow though - I wish I had it at home.
-Oh, I don't have this thing at home. There's no way I could afford the
-$30,000 my boss paid for this thing. But he's stuck with it and has had
-it sitting around collecting dust for a year, so he's letting me play
-with it and try to find a use for it.
-I'll get back with you when I have some more information. It should be
-sometime this week when I find out if I can get it to work or not
.
-Zed
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