/* The compile-time configurable defaults for the Linux SCSI tape driver. Copyright 1995 Kai Makisara. Last modified: Wed Sep 2 21:24:07 1998 by root@home */ #ifndef _ST_OPTIONS_H #define _ST_OPTIONS_H /* The driver allocates the tape buffers when needed if ST_RUNTIME_BUFFERS is nonzero. Otherwise a number of buffers are allocated at initialization. The drawback of runtime allocation is that allocation may fail. In any case the driver tries to allocate a new tape buffer when none is free. */ #define ST_RUNTIME_BUFFERS 0 /* The minimum limit for the number of SCSI tape devices is determined by ST_MAX_TAPES. If the number of tape devices and the "slack" defined by ST_EXTRA_DEVS exceeds ST_MAX_TAPES, the large number is used. */ #define ST_MAX_TAPES 4 /* The driver does not wait for some operations to finish before returning to the user program if ST_NOWAIT is non-zero. This helps if the SCSI adapter does not support multiple outstanding commands. However, the user should not give a new tape command before the previous one has finished. */ #define ST_NOWAIT 0 /* If ST_IN_FILE_POS is nonzero, the driver positions the tape after the record been read by the user program even if the tape has moved further because of buffered reads. Should be set to zero to support also drives that can't space backwards over records. NOTE: The tape will be spaced backwards over an "accidentally" crossed filemark in any case. */ #define ST_IN_FILE_POS 0 /* If ST_RECOVERED_WRITE_FATAL is non-zero, recovered errors while writing are considered "hard errors". */ #define ST_RECOVERED_WRITE_FATAL 0 /* The "guess" for the block size for devices that don't support MODE SENSE. */ #define ST_DEFAULT_BLOCK 0 /* The tape driver buffer size in kilobytes. */ #define ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS 32 /* The number of kilobytes of data in the buffer that triggers an asynchronous write in fixed block mode. See also ST_ASYNC_WRITES below. */ #define ST_WRITE_THRESHOLD_BLOCKS 30 /* The maximum number of tape buffers the driver allocates. The number is also constrained by the number of drives detected. Determines the maximum number of concurrently active tape drives. */ #define ST_MAX_BUFFERS (2 + ST_EXTRA_DEVS) /* Maximum number of scatter/gather segments */ #define ST_MAX_SG 16 /* The number of scatter/gather segments to allocate at first try (must be smaller or equal to the maximum). */ #define ST_FIRST_SG 8 /* The size of the first scatter/gather segments (determines the maximum block size for SCSI adapters not supporting scatter/gather). The default is set to try to allocate the buffer as one chunk. */ #define ST_FIRST_ORDER 5 /* The following lines define defaults for properties that can be set separately for each drive using the MTSTOPTIONS ioctl. */ /* If ST_TWO_FM is non-zero, the driver writes two filemarks after a file being written. Some drives can't handle two filemarks at the end of data. */ #define ST_TWO_FM 0 /* If ST_BUFFER_WRITES is non-zero, writes in fixed block mode are buffered until the driver buffer is full or asynchronous write is triggered. May make detection of End-Of-Medium early enough fail. */ #define ST_BUFFER_WRITES 1 /* If ST_ASYNC_WRITES is non-zero, the SCSI write command may be started without waiting for it to finish. May cause problems in multiple tape backups. */ #define ST_ASYNC_WRITES 1 /* If ST_READ_AHEAD is non-zero, blocks are read ahead in fixed block mode. */ #define ST_READ_AHEAD 1 /* If ST_AUTO_LOCK is non-zero, the drive door is locked at the first read or write command after the device is opened. The door is opened when the device is closed. */ #define ST_AUTO_LOCK 0 /* If ST_FAST_MTEOM is non-zero, the MTEOM ioctl is done using the direct SCSI command. The file number status is lost but this method is fast with some drives. Otherwise MTEOM is done by spacing over files and the file number status is retained. */ #define ST_FAST_MTEOM 0 /* If ST_SCSI2LOGICAL is nonzero, the logical block addresses are used for MTIOCPOS and MTSEEK by default. Vendor addresses are used if ST_SCSI2LOGICAL is zero. */ #define ST_SCSI2LOGICAL 0 /* If ST_SYSV is non-zero, the tape behaves according to the SYS V semantics. The default is BSD semantics. */ #define ST_SYSV 0 #endif