Seagate Scorpion 240 DDS-4, Installation Manual

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2.
Edit the file /dev/MAKEDEV.d/TPS_base and make the
following modification (this modification is not required on
systems running IRIX 6.4 or 6.5).
Locate the area of code which deals with DAT drives.
This starts with:
*Drive?type:*DAT*
Then insert the following text before or after the similar
entries for other supported devices:
*Device:*DAT*06240*) # DAT drive with compression
mdev=`expr $mdev + 8`;
mknod ${prf}$1c c ${C_TPS} $mdev;
;;
3. Restart the system. Irix 6.x will detect the changes made
and automatically rebuild the kernel on startup.
Alternatively, you could manually rebuild the kernel using
the autoconfig command (see the autoconfig man page
for details ), then reboot the system again to bring the
changes into effect.
Troubleshooting installations on the SGI platform
Checking the drives inquiry string
It may be useful to confirm the drive’s inquiry string. This is
done using the mt command. The following command line will
retrieve the Inquiry string and other status data from a drive
on SCSI bus 1, ID 4.
mt -f /dev/rmt/tps1d4 status
System Interchange Problems
If the following error appears when trying to restore a cpio
archive from another system, it is likely that a mistake was
made in the installation sequence in section 7.1 above:
Byte swapped Data - re-try with correct device