As a follow up - mtx seems to do everything needed for changers. And the exabyte has a barcode reader ?! Seems that you barcode your tapes :)
-----Original Message----- From: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 10 October 2005 5:56 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SCSI tape changers On Oct 10, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Craig FALCONER wrote: > I've got files going to and from tape using simply tar, and the > tape drive > has hardware compression on already. Whats the best way to use the > changer > functionality? According to the manpage 'eject' can do this with IDE devices using the -c option. You might like to try it in conjunction with -s just to see if it'll work. - Dave
