Hello Marc,
On 3 Jun 1999, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Mr. James W. Laferriere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > a general user can get 'mt' to get status (...) once the
> > tape is loaded . But using 'mtx' on the same device
> > illicits the below response .
> Question 1:
> - are you operating a medium changer ? A medium changer is a device
> which can automatically load, remove and choose from different
> cassettes.
> if no: well, why are you using mtx, then ?
Yes.
> Question 2:
> - if you answered YES to the first question, are you 100% sure that
> your tape device has LUN (Logical Unit) 0 as the tape drive, and
> 1 as the changer ? (if you don't know, look in the debug messages,
> or do a scsi-probe/probe-scsi/sprobe/whatever from PROM monitor
> after clean shutdown).
Yes, Did the 'probe-scsi-all' thing to verify .
> If you do not have such changer, you need other software. I have software
> for Solaris, including full source, which can be used to control a
> SCSI ID-based autochanger (such as the DILOG Libra series, from
> the company I work for, thank you for reading this subliminal
> advertising :)).
> Look at http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/archives/local/autochangers/plt/
> this works under Linux (through sg) and Solaris (see README.Solaris)
> > mtx: Request Sense: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > mtx: READ ELEMENT STATUS Command Failed
> Presumably there is no LUN 1.
root can get to it , the same command that produced the above
as user gives appropriate info . Ie:
sunny:root:/$ mtx -f /dev/rmt/0 inquiry
Vendor ID: 'HP ', Product ID: 'C1557A ', Revision: 'U709'
Tia, JimL
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