Hello,

I've a Dell computer Poweredge 1800 with a Perc DC4 Dual channel raid controller . The whole computer is SCSI based .
I've installed the whole system (SCO 6.0, maintenance package 2.0, and our Openbasic software and all printers).
Everything works, even my remote printers.
But I've only still to install the Tandberg tape SLR75 drive, this can't be done, cause we keep that drive from our previous machine into our new one (its only 1 year old tape drive).
There's one free SCSI bus on the main board of this machine.
I've already used that bus for an old Tandberg DLT drive, and that drive is recognized by the computer, but when I want to access /dev/rStp0 with cpio and backup something with cpio then it goes into /dev/rStp0 (the file /dev/rStp0 grows, but the tape does not backup) .
Maybe this is caused by the fact that that old drive lightens its error drive led (that tape drive is broken).
But I want to install the Tandberg tape SLR 75 Sunday (when everybody is home, and no users are on the machine).
As far I have seen the tape drive would be recognized by the SCO openserver OS? Is this correctly?
Will cpio work with /dev/rStp0 with this drive (which resides currently in a machine with SCO 5.0.5 which we use now).

W. Kind Regards,

Frederik

In short, yes you can.

Uninstall the old drive, rebuild the kernel and shutdown the system. Replace with the new tape drive, restart the computer. Install the new drive, rebuild the kernel and reboot.

You will still keep the rStp0 as the tape drive.

HiH

Hi tbGeek,

Actually the whole thing was just even more simple.
The SCO Openserver 6.0 recognized the tape drive automatically.
So there was not any problem with it.

W.Kind Regards,

Frederik