Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:41:34 +0100 From: Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: multiple tape backups Message-ID: <20001110104134.A91444@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from grog@lemis.com on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 02:46:49PM %2B0800
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Greg Lehey wrote (2000/11/07): > On Sunday, 5 November 2000 at 17:50:11 -0500, Lanny Baron wrote: > > Hello Greg, > > Would you know if /bin/chio will be able to make the robotic arm of an > > Exabyte EZ-17 Tape Autoloader work? > > > > If not, would you know what must be done in order for a tape mechanism > > like this to insert new tape (comes with 7 tapes in a bay) at end of tape > > when backing up systems? > > Lanny, I've asked you before to send this kind of message to > - -questions. I don't know the answer for sure. I could guess an > answer, or say "try it and see", but if you have to buy a unit to try, > that may be less than sufficient. Maybe somebody else knows the > answer. ;-) Hi, for example, we have Exabyte EZ-17 autoloader with M2 tape drive. /bin/chio works very well. There is only one bug/feature, which I do not like (I have contacted our support and I hope it will be solved): If I turn on autoloader and there is a tape in the tape drive, it refuses to scan slots in a bay (cartridge). If you could not use chio, there is a sequential mode (http://www.exabyte.com/suppserv/pubs/library/ez17/32882403.pdf, Chapter 8: Sequential Operation), where tape eject (mt offline) is sufficient to pass through tapes in a cartridge. If you want M2 tape drive too, it has to be very new drive (and new tapes)! -- Rudolf Cejka (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar) Brno University of Technology, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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