All...
Please forgive the cross platform Posting but I cant believe what I have
been told is true.
On dunix we have the tried and tested robot utility to manipulate tape
silos. I have a sun Solaris machine with a 7 slot L280 tape stacker
connected and need to be able to load and unload tapes in a similar fashion.
I have been told that Solaris has no equivalent utility - surely not. How
can a vendor supply a robot with no means of controlling it native from the
o/s. I am aware that NetWorker can control the robot, but I want to use
native o/s utilities.
(I have been advised that, on Solaris the only think you can do is "offline"
the tape and it will rotate to the next tape in the silo.
mt -f /dev/rmt/0 off
but you cant find out which tape is now loaded and the only way of reading
the tape label is to use the verbose option of ufsrestore interactively
ufsrestore -ivf /dev/rmt/0)
Is anybody aware of any 3rd party utilities to control a L280 stacker on a
Solaris box?
I will post this on the sun managers list as well.
Thanking you all in advance.
regards - Tony
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Received on Tue Jan 09 2001 - 08:54:09 NZDT