From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 19 8:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A62F37B405 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJGWaT82061; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:32:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: Danny Braniss Cc: Subject: Re: mt/dump/chio In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011119083218.T69189-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 rmt protocol doesn't handle changer commands. You want to start looking at things like NDMP instead. On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Danny Braniss wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message