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


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