[2912] in linux-scsi channel archive
SCSI tape tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Popov)
Tue Dec 9 17:48:23 1997
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 15:01:53 -0800
From: Pete Popov <pete@jones.asd.sel.sony.com>
If anyone is interested in a SCSI tape tool and library, both
using the Linux generic driver, you can download it (stt) from
http://pw2.netcom.com/~popov/index.html. It's a fairly low-level
tool, although it has "high-level" support for many SCSI sequential
commands. The package is not as complete as I would like it to be,
but I'll be adding additional features in the near future. Some of
it's features:
*GPL
*support for sequential access devices
*command line completion and history (using the GNU readline library)
*support for "high level" SCSI commands, such as "space eod",
"modesense page 2 pcf 0", etc.
*low-level support: allows the user to edit the "data out" buffer and
then issue io6, io10, or io12, thus allowing for any SCSI command to
be sent.
*some documentation ... as well as self-documenting commands -- simply
type "help" to see all the commands, and then "help <command>" for
further help.
If you decide to check it out, do NOT use it with a valuable tape
sitting in your drive! ...consider it an alpha release.
If you hang your system or erase your tape, you send me your hate mail
at pete@asd.sel.sony.com or popov@ix.netcom.com :-)
Pete
