[1362] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 32 Gig Tape- Auto-Loader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael O'Shaughnessy)
Wed Jan 29 19:18:58 1997
From: mikeo@beast.sme.siemens.com (Michael O'Shaughnessy)
To: sysadmin@shell.global2000.net (Adam Wills)
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 19:07:00 EST
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <5cojin$pp6@news.global2000.net>; from "Adam Wills" at Jan 29, 97 10:39 pm
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> I need to know, is there any software out there that will let linux
> auto-select which tape to use in the armature (right now i have to manually
> walk over each morning to press "select" on the led pannel to go from tape
> to tape, otherwise it keeps writing over the same data. The tapedrive IS
> smart enough to auto incremenent TO the next tape if you exceed that 4 gig
> limit on the first tape, and keeps going tape to tape to tape, until you
> finish or hit 32 gigs- but what i backup is about 2 gigs daily, and then i
> want to auto-select from tape to tape so i have my own "rotation" of tapes
> being done automatically..
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> Any ideas? I know, you want to know the brand name (Sorry), bought it via
> www.corpsys.com, for about 600 when it was on sale- it has NO name, but its
> scsi-2, and works great. Just needs a tweak to do software tape selection
> in linux. (there was no dos software included either for that price so i
> dunno if such software exists for it).
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I have one of these too - but got the earlier model. It is a Python
drive, since sold to Seagate. They were unhelpful when I tried to get
programming info.
You can control compression and sequencing via mt:
mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 1 (or 0) to turn it on or off
and
mt -f /dev/st0 offline to change tapes.
The book that came with it shows you can change a dip switch to cause
it to go from the last tape to the first, instead of stopping. You
can also buy a 12 tape magazine instead of the 4 tape mag. that it
comes with.
I've been very happy with mine - good luck!
Mike
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