On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:40:00PM -0800, Levinson, Donald A. wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to access the information on the LTO-CM chip? > I am interested in finding the total life usage of my tapes to determine > when to end-o-life a cartridge. > My drives are 3580 IBM and they are connected to an AIX system. I looked > in the manual for tapeutil but it doesn't mention any such capability.
I have patched tapeutil to give you some usefull information out of the tape drives/carctridges. The patch for tapeutil 1.58 is able to show part of the MAM. See http://www.mesa.nl to see example output of the patched taputil. Follow the download link and then the tapeutil link. -Marcel > > *********************************************************************************** > 5/5/2004 > This transmittal may contain confidential information intended solely for > the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately by reply or by telephone (collect at 907-564-1000) and ask to > speak with the message sender. In addition, please immediately delete this > message and all attachments. Thank you. ACS -- ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 P.O. Box 112 =======--------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2630 AC Nootdorp __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- counter.li.org so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www.ruperthine.com