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RE: Optical Jukebox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Beitler, David)
Wed Mar 1 21:48:19 2000
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From: "Beitler, David" <dbeitler@ndcwireless.com>
To: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:38:14 -0800
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You might also try
http://me.in-berlin.de/~kraxel/linux.html
I use an older version on an HP 20XT. It would be nice to have a full
library program, so I can keep track of all the media, but it works fine for
moving things around and ejecting media and such.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Lee Green [SMTP:eric@estinc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:45 AM
> To: David Wilde
> Cc: 'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'
> Subject: Re: Optical Jukebox
>
> David Wilde wrote:
> > Sorry, this is a little off-topic.
> > Does anyone know of any Optical Jukebox software for Linux (preferably
> OSS)
> > that will work with the HP SureStore Optical 320ex. TIA, Dave
>
> 'mtx' SHOULD work with Optical Jukeboxes, assuming that they abide by the
> SCSI-2 media changer specification. While most people use 'mtx' with tape
> changers, the media changer spec doesn't care whether you're changing
> tapes,
> cd-roms, or meatloaf. (Well, *MAYBE* meatloaf wouldn't be a good idea in
> today's drives :-). Note that you might need to use the 'eject' command to
> eject the cd-rom out of the drive before the media changer can 'pick' it,
> also
> note that you may need to re-compile your kernel to scan for LUN's on the
> SCSI
> bus (some media changers live on a second LUN at the same SCSI ID as the
> drive).
>
> Check out FreshMeat for mtx 1.1, which works with changers with up to 16
> elements. For more elements, I have 'mtxl' at
> http://www.estinc.com/downloads/
> , but beware -- this is under development, and there are known problems
> (for
> one thing, I'm having trouble getting sensible sense data out of the SCSI
> generic device, sigh... if I use SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND and send
> 'READ_ELEMENT_STATUS' to a disk drive, the low-level SCSI device driver
> sensibly returns 'INVALID_REQUEST' in the sense data, but the
> write()/read()
> process, same SCSI command, to the SCSI generic device associated with the
> drive returns no error code at all?!?!).
>
> --
> Eric Lee Green eric@estinc.com
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