On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:46:52AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 at 5:24am, stan wrote > > >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:20:16AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >>You can go ahead and write such a beast, but if the tapes are already > >>labeled, amcheck can do that just fine. > > > >Mmm, as far as I know amcheck can tell me if the correct tape is loaded, > >but I'll stil need to write something that will run amcheck, check the > >results of it (does it return a status or do I have to check the text > >it outputs), then run amtape next slot, check again, and loop untill > >it gets a good status (or has checked all slots). > > With my changer (and chg-zd-mtx), amtape will scan through all available > slots until it finds (or doesn't) the tape with the label it's expecting. > Cool, perhaps mine will work that way if I label all the tapes? I'm using cchg-multi with each "slot" consisting of a RAIT of 1 vatpe, one physical tape. The tape drive is a single tape unit, not a changer. What amtape command are you issuing? None of the ones listed in the man page seem to request this, as far as I can tell.
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