Hi, you're receiving this EMAIL either because you're on the Linux SCSI list, or because you've sent me EMAIL about mtx/mtxl in the past. If the latter, I'd like to invite you to join the 'mtx' mailing list at the new 'mtx' home page on SourceForge, because otherwise you will not receive any more announcements of this nature: http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4626 Note that the "-announce" list is not yet up (try again tomorrow), but the "-general" list is. Anyhow: I just finished changing 'mtx' to dynamically allocate its arrays depending upon the results of the MODE_SENSE Element Address Assignment Page. What that basically means is that, no matter how many elements in your media changer, no matter how small or how big, 'mtx' should be able to adjust to it (up to the limits of the underlying SCSI subsystem, but even media changers with a dozen drives and hundreds of elements should now be usable). No more going into 'mtx.h' and changing cryptic constants to deal with unusual numbers of elements. Hopefully. (Note that changers that use the _ATTACHED API still use the constants, since they have no Element Address Assignment Page). Anyhow, the code: ftp://ftp.estinc.com/pub/unsupported/mtx-1.2.4.tar.gz I have tested this code with two media changers: the Exabyte 220 (the EZ-17 is almost identical SCSI-wise and should work identically), and the HP DAT 40x6. Each of which returned a different data format from the MODE_SENSE (the actual page itself was the same, but mode page headers etc. were not). I'm not feeling too confident about this code, and would appreciate it if any or all of you would try it out to make sure that it works with your own media changer, even if you're happy with the version of 'mtx' that you're running now. See the CHANGES file for some info on what I need insofar as debugging goes if it does *NOT* work. And thanks for any help you can give me here. (And thanks especially to Doug Bonnell, ?formerly? of BreeceHill, for the info underlying this and the EEPOS stuff). -- Eric -- Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer Visit our Web page: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. http://www.estinc.com/ (602) 470-1115 voice (602) 470-1116 fax - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
