Device type: standard
Windows NT UNIX
device=standard device=standard
drive=\\.\p0b0t2 drive=/dev/iXOS_SCSI0/2
drive=\\.\p0b0t3 drive=/dev/iXOS_SCSI0/3
drive=\\.\p0b0t4 drive=/dev/iXOS_SCSI0/4
drive=\\.\p0b0t5 drive=/dev/iXOS_SCSI0/5
robot=\\.\p0b0t6 robot=/dev/iXOS_SCSI0/6
save=mercury.sav save=mercury.sav
These jukeboxes differ from the respective models without the trailing `s' by
using SCSI control instead of a serial line. Internally, however, the SCSI
commands are transformed to serial commands. The advantage of these models is
the pure SCSI connection; disadvantages include the need for another free SCSI
ID for the robot, and more importantly, the throughput under high load can be
worse than the serial models. This is due to inherent problems of the
transformation of SCSI commands into serial commands.
For
NSM Mercury and Satellite jukeboxes with Plextor drives, iXOS-JUKEMAN supports
accelerated insertion of CDs. To use this feature, enter an additional line
"ftoc=<file name>" in the device description file. The
server will use this file to store information normally read in the first few
seconds after a CD is inserted into a drive. If the same CD is inserted into
the same drive at a later time, the server will send this information to the
drive, so the drive will not need to read it from the CD. The drive will be
ready to read data a few seconds earlier, and the clients accordingly will get
the data a few seconds earlier.