(clug-talk) IBM Library Question.

[Kevin Anderson]

I've had an IBM 3583 Tape Library more or less fall to me.   It's a slick little unit, which can shuffle it's own tapes, and stuff.  But I suspect it'll take more than a tar command to make it work.   Does anyone have any experience with tape autoloaders, or alternately, can anyone point me in the direction of a support site where I might be able to find some instructions on how to accomplish this?   I'll end up needing a fairly short list of things.   I need to get tapes entered into the Library (Scan the Barcode, and keep track of where everything is.) I need to move a tape from in the Library to one of the Tape Drives (By barcode) I need to move data onto the tape (TAR?) I need to get the tape out of the drive, and back to the library. Lastly, I need to be able to eject the tapes from the library.   Kev.