Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:12:02 -0500 From: "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Media changer relative movement? Message-ID: <001f01c02735$406f9ba0$b8209fc0@marlowe>
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Does chio(1) offer any relative movement options when working with a media changer? For example, I have an HP SureStore DAT changer. With a tape loaded into slot 0, I have to do the following chio commands to load the tape from the next slot: chio move drive 0 slot 0 chio move slot 1 drive 0 It's not a lot of commands per se, but I have to know what tape is in the drive (so I can put it into the empty slot) and which slot the "next" media should come from, which adds a fair amount of thinking to a simple dump script. What I'm looking for is a "next" command to chio that would simply load the next tape, either returning an error when the last slot was reached or loading the tape from slot 0. I guess I'm looking for the same kind of functionality that I had under linux with mtx. Does this exist in chio and I'm just missing it from the man page, or is a go-code-it-yourself-lazy-bum type deal? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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