> Unless I miss my guess, when the second drive is added it will show up as 1
> and the rest of the slots will move up one. MTX currently identifies the
> tape drive as slot 0, the holding slots as 1-20, the cleaning cartridge
> slots as 21-22, and the I/O port as 23. The only other option would be for
> the second drive to go to -1 and that doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
In MTX, tape drives and cartridge slots are disjoint as far as element
numbers are concerned. In other words, a second tape drive will show up as
drive #1, but your slots will still be numbered from 1 to 20. Here's an
example of a (mostly empty at the time) 2-drive library as reported by mtx:
%mtx -f /dev/pass2 status
Storage Changer /dev/pass2:2 Drives, 29 Slots ( 1 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 4 Loaded):VolumeTag = DLT003
Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=DLT000
Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=DLT001
Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=DLT002
Storage Element 4:Empty
Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=DLT004
Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=DLT005
Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=DLT006
Storage Element 8:Empty
Storage Element 9:Empty
Storage Element 10:Empty
Storage Element 11:Empty
Storage Element 12:Empty
Storage Element 13:Empty
Storage Element 14:Full :VolumeTag=DLT031
Storage Element 15:Empty
Storage Element 16:Empty
Storage Element 17:Empty
Storage Element 18:Empty
Storage Element 19:Empty
Storage Element 20:Empty
Storage Element 21:Empty
Storage Element 22:Empty
Storage Element 23:Empty
Storage Element 24:Empty
Storage Element 25:Empty
Storage Element 26:Empty
Storage Element 27:Empty
Storage Element 28:Empty
Storage Element 29 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty
Every other tape changer utility I've encountered starts numbering the
storage elements at 0 too. Dunno why mtx starts at 1.
-Ben
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