HP SuperStore 24x6 DAT tape drive and use with Amanda
Bill Thomason
tape drives.
They did provide some information about a user getting a Sony autoloader
drive working.
The information referred to the use of a BSD command called scsicmd.
Has anyone out there used scsicmd with the HP SuperStore drive? If so, how?
Our resident expert on amanda says that once we have this info we should be
able to write a script that rotates the tapes in the carousel.
Thanks,
-bill
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Mike Bayliss
<wbth...@cpu.com> wrote:
>The information referred to the use of a BSD command called scsicmd.
>
>Has anyone out there used scsicmd with the HP SuperStore drive? If so, how?
>Our resident expert on amanda says that once we have this info we should be
>able to write a script that rotates the tapes in the carousel.
ftp://ftp.uunet.be/pub/staff/mikeb/README.
Also there is an amanda changer script and patches to scsicmd for 3.1.
I was told that at 4.0 scsicmd became table driven, so the patch
shouldn't be needed (but you'll need the changer command structures
included in the patch).
mike
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Lee Havemann
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> Subject: HP SuperStore 24x6 DAT tape drive and use with Amanda
>
>
> I found out from tech support that BSDI does not directly
> support autoloader
> tape drives.
>
> They did provide some information about a user getting a
> Sony autoloader
> drive working.
>
> The information referred to the use of a BSD command called scsicmd.
>
> Has anyone out there used scsicmd with the HP SuperStore
> drive? If so, how?
> Our resident expert on amanda says that once we have this
> info we should be
> able to write a script that rotates the tapes in the carousel.
>
> Thanks,
> -bill
>
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I found this program a few months back called tapechg. I haven't tried it,
but if you want it, let me know.
The readme for it is below my sig.
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tapechg
By Brian Litzinger
This code allows one to control the tape changer of the Archive
Python tape changer DAT tape units. It should work with any
SCSI compliant tape changer.
tapechg
is a generic changer for controlling SCSI compliant tape changers.
tapechanger will display help if you run the program with no
arguments.
chg-python
is a changer utility that is compliant with the amanda tape backup
program tape changer specification under version 2.3.0 of amanda.
chg-python does not depend on tapechanger. It is fully self-contained.