From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 11:23:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA26964 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA26959 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:23:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA06447 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:23:12 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA23900; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:14:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:14:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA and HP 12000e Superstore DAT changer References: <199701100547.AAA27283@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701100547.AAA27283@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>; from Bill Paul on Jan 10, 1997 00:46:58 -0500 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Paul wrote: > The SCSI changer driver works great with this device: I can load any of > the 6 tapes from the magazine into the drive and even query the drive to > see which slot is currently loaded. It would be nice if we had a chcontrol > utility in the base system to do this though; people shouldn't have to > hack together their own custom tools for these kinds of things. Note that there's a new changer driver send-pr'ed (# kern/1201) by Jason Thorpe (of NetBSD), which also has a chcontrol IIRC. It's already in the SCSI branch, but not yet in the main tree. -- Well, i checked, it seems that only the kernel part is in the branch yet. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)