[TriLUG] AIT autoloader

[David A. Cafaro]

Take a look at the mtx command (man mtx, or install mtx if you don't
have it).  I'm not sure on the AIT, but on many tape libraries I've used
before the mtx command usually did the trick for swaping around tapes.  

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:23, 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
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