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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970110201445.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701100547.AAA27283@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>; from Bill Paul on Jan 10, 1997 00:46:58 -0500 References: <199701100547.AAA27283@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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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. ;-)
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