Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:09:09 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP C1553A Autoloading DDS-2 DAT tape drive control? Message-ID: <199604251009.MAA25078@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199601262348.SAA08084@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jan 26, 96 06:48:44 pm
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Hi,
I also got a HP Autoloader and except for two small changes which I attach
at the end, it works fine.
Thanks, it saved me quite a lot of effort trying to figure it out.
John
--
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
> >
> > Hi, we have HP C1553A Autoloading DDS2 DAT tape drives attached to
> > a FreeBSD node. Is there a program available that would allow me to
> > fully manipulate the drive?
> >
> > I have code for HPUX and Solaris, but it is so OS dependend I cannot
> > compile it in FreeBSD.
>
> You can use scsi(8) to send commands to the device. Something like
> this (I didn't run this - this is a dramatization based on that C
> code) saved as dds_changer and made executable. As a raw-device-name
> you must use something that accepts the SCSI ioctl calls - the
> control device for whatever it comes on line as will.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"; export PATH
>
> usage()
> {
> echo "Usage: dds_changer [123456ne] raw-device-name
> echo "1..6 = Select cartridge"
> echo "next cartridge"
> echo "eject magazine"
> exit 2
> }
>
> if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
> usage
> fi
>
> cdb3=0
> cdb4=0
> cdb5=0
>
> case $1 in
> [123456])
> cdb3=$1
> cdb4=1
> ;;
> n)
> ;;
> e)
> cdb5=0x80
> ;;
> ?)
> usage
> ;;
> esac
>
> scsi -f $2 -s 100 -c "1b 0 0 v v v" $cdb3 $cdb4 $cdb5
>
*** dds_changer.org Thu Apr 25 09:51:07 1996
--- dds_changer Thu Apr 25 11:59:24 1996
***************
*** 3,9 ****
usage()
{
! echo "Usage: dds_changer [123456ne] raw-device-name
echo "1..6 = Select cartridge"
echo "next cartridge"
echo "eject magazine"
--- 3,9 ----
usage()
{
! echo "Usage: dds_changer [123456ne] raw-device-name"
echo "1..6 = Select cartridge"
echo "next cartridge"
echo "eject magazine"
***************
*** 33,37 ****
;;
esac
! scsi -f $2 -s 100 -c "1b 0 0 v v v" $cdb3 $cdb4 $cdb5
--- 33,37 ----
;;
esac
! scsi -f $2 -s 100 -c "1b 0 0 $cdb3 $cdb4 $cdb5"
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