[TriLUG] AIT autoloader

[Matt McGrievy]

Hi Steve,

I can't personally vouch for it, but mtx may do what you're looking for:
http://mtx.badtux.net/

There are FC2 RPMs for it on rpmfind.

-Matt

Steve Hoffman wrote:
> I have recently...acquired...an AIT autoloader (Sony TSL-A300C), from
> a company that has gone the way of the dodo.  It's a fairly nice unit
> that seems to play well with FC2 and I'm sure all *nix's.  My question
> is, does anyone know how to remotely change tapes with it?  The
> magazine has space for 4-25GB cassettes for a capacity of
> 200GB(compressed) but I don't know how to tell it to rotate the tape
> without pressing the "select" button then "enter" when I have
> highlighted the tape I want.  I can't imagine it can't be done, but
> I've never used a tape drive that held more then 1 tape....anyone have
> experience with these models?  Know of a good resource for them
> specifically with Linux?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve