On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:20:03AM -0600, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > A user on IRC asked me about support for chio, the FreeBSD equivalent > to mtx. I know Amanda has chg-chio, but for some reason this wasn't > working well. > > This particular user didn't hang around long enough to get things > working, but it did remind me that chg-robot doesn't support chio, > since I don't have a FreeBSD box with a changer attached. The old > chg-chio script will continue to work as well as it ever has, but > chg-robot is a lot smarter about remembering where tapes are and > finding them quickly, so it'd be great to have support for FreeBSD as > well. > > So: I'm looking for someone who knows a bit about chio and a bit of > Perl to put this particular piece of support together.
I've worked on chg-chio a bit under NetBSD to drive my adic scalar 448 DLT changer. it has a barcode scanner, but I've never bothered to configure it since amanda's normal access pattern is sequential. it sounds like chg-robot would be an improvement. it doesn't look like chio has diverged much between NetBSD and FreeBSD, so I expect if I get it working under NetBSD it should work under FreeBSD as well. is the chg-robot script something I could use with 2.5.2p1, or do I need to fire up subversion? :) -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | [email protected]
