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SSCL DD2 Driver Port and Project Update

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A paper previously published in the 1992 ICHEP proceedings [ref. 1] outlined the SSC’s need for a high speed, high capacity tape drive to store detector data. Also described were stages and lessons learned while developing a custom device driver for the Ampex DD2 tape drive on a Silicon Graphics 4D/310. This paper updates the work on the SGI driver and describes the efforts in porting the driver to a Sun Microsystems 670 server.

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  1. “SSCL DD2 Mass Storage Project”, Steve Mestad, ICHEP Proceedings, 1992.

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  1. Physics Research Division Computing Department MS-2003, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, 2550 Beckleymeade Ave., Dallas, TX, 75237, USA

    Steven L. Mestad

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  1. Superconducting Supercollider Laboratory, Dallas, Texas, USA

    Phyllis Hale

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Mestad, S.L. (1994). SSCL DD2 Driver Port and Project Update. In: Hale, P. (eds) Supercollider 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2439-7_31

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