On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 at 7:21pm, Franz Regensburger wrote > st1 (nst1) for the scsi tape drive (QUANTUM DLT8000) > sg1 for the tape changer. (ATL M2500; this is emulated by the SUN > changer) > > What I do NOT get is a generic scsi device sg? for the scsi tape.
Actually, you do (it just isn't noted in the message log. Look at the output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'. The first device in there corresponds to sg0, the next to sg1, etc. > - Is there a way to get a generic scsi device sg? for the tape, too? > The scsi device st? does not work as parameter for scsitapedev. See above. > - Is there another way to solve the timing problem and the resource > conflict between changer commands an direct tape commands If you can get mtx working with your changer, then you could use chg-zd-mtx. That works quite well for me here with a Overland LibPro. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
