[3473] in linux-scsi channel archive
Tar & Zip & SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Ray Kinsella)
Fri Mar 6 21:32:40 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 03:27:59 +0100 (MET)
From: James Ray Kinsella <darksun@bocal.cs.univ-paris8.fr>
Reply-To: James Ray Kinsella <darksun@bocal.cs.univ-paris8.fr>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
ok, I have medium sized network here manily consisting of
Xterminals off two master Alpha Servers running SunOs.
Two RedHat linux sparc, one for general use ( mainly me ) and the other
fuctioning as our GateWay, there is also two 86 Pentium 200mhz running
NetBSD, but I was never entirely sure what there meant to do (C:, we also
( heres the important bit ) have 20 odd OLD sony newsos stations ( circi
1987 ) which we use for hooking up the students SCSI devices from home.
Now the students have ( as I do ), have SCSI devices such as SYQuests, zip
drives blah blah blah. And the normal way it works is that the students
plug them into one of the old "Sony Stations", which are in another
room entirely and then gtar to the device
on the machine remotely. But we are having major problems because
everytime a Tar is preformed, when the operation has finished one of
several things will happen.
a. The disk pops out ( in the case of zip drives )
b. The cartiage locks and has to be ejected (
syquest )
People has suggested that let them mount the drives onto the NEWSOS
stations, but these things are extremely clapped out, and refuse to
recognise any other filesystem but their own. I can't let them mount onto
the server 'cos that would mean a server reboot every five minutes and it
is also a particullarly large security loop hole.
So any ideas ?
Regards
Ray
"I get knocked down,
but I get up again,
you ain't never gonna keep me down"
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