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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:32:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mt/dump/chio
Message-ID:  <20011119083218.T69189-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <E165rJf-000Dx9-00@pampa.cs.huji.ac.il>

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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
>
>
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