From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 19 8:30:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A9437B416 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 165rJf-0006wb-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:30:39 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by pampa.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 165rJf-000Dx9-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:30:39 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: mt/dump/chio Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:30:39 +0200 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i don't know if this is the right place, if not please re-direct me before shooting :-) we have a tape changer (QUALSTAR TLS-4222i), with 2 scsi tapes, now since both tar and dump understand -f host:/dev/sa, the next thing i did was to make mt (MT(1)) understand it, so that i now can manipulate the tape from afar, without having access permitions to host. the next step it to see how - if at all - mt should understand things like: 'host:/dev/sa0:115' meaning mount tape 115 on /dev/sa0 or more ambitious: 'host:/dev/tape:100@10:45pm' mount tape number 100, on any free device not earlier than 10:45pm if you can see where im going to, and have suggestions, they are welcome. danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message