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Auto Loader tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Merillat)
Sun Jan 26 02:13:00 1997
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:11:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Merillat <Dan@Merillat.org>
To: Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Ok, the subject says it all... I have an auto-loading drive,
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28849-XXX Rev: 4.CM
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
As a tape drive, it works no problem... But what mt commands can I use
to get it to swap tapes? The idea is to use the 48 raw gig on a news server
so I don't have to wipe it every time I change the size of the raid0
filesystem. So, I'm looking at a (tar/cpio/whatever) solution to start
at tape 1 and go on. Programming is possible but I figured someone has
done it already.
I think part of the problem is that I will need to use both the /dev/st0 and
/dev/sg devices, right?
Let me know if I'm way off base here.
Oh yea, command line stuff is prefered over a pretty 'GUI' based archive
system, since I have an old mono monitor as the console for the news server.
--Dan
