
150 EFS Systems on a Linux Base: Additional Topics
The Overland drive is similar to the IBM 3490-F01 drive. Both have an extensive list of
firmware options that can be set from the panel of the drive. We used the following options
with the Overland drive:
Option Description Our setting
42 Power-up restart 01 = Unload cartridge
43 Format Display 01 = Enable
44 Write Synchronization 02 = Sync on 2nd consecutive file mark
46 Number of Read retries 05 = 16 retries
47 Number of Write retries 05 = 16 retries
48 Lockout switches 00 = Host & panel unlocked
49 Block size 00 = Variable Block Mode
50 SCSI address We used address 04; nothing else on the ...