Sam wrote:
> I have an HP A3400A autoloader. (This appears to be the same actual
> hardware that you get if you buy the HP 120000e)
> Basically, It's a 6-tape magazine-based DDS2 DAT drive.
>
> We've had this thing about 3 years, and I've been horsing around with it
> now and again, and now it finally works with HP-UX.
> (It always worked as a tape drive, the new achievement is being able to
> load and unload tapes from software).
>
> >From my reading of the SCSI-HOWTO, and the various HP-UX manuals, I
think
> the way it works is roughly analagous to the "generic scsi" driver in
> linux. There is a scsi device that functions as a bare-bones "pass-thru"
> and other programs (in this case the "mc" command) provide rudimentary
> interfaces.
>
> Anyway, it looks like the HP-UX "Scsi Pass-through" or "spt" device is
> equivalent to the Linux "Generic SCSI" kernal driver.
>
> Does anybody know of a program that talks to this device and provides
some
> sort of command interface?
>
> Or alternatively is there anyone who happens to know what scsi commands
> would have to be sent to this device? I'm not a real C programmer, but I
> could play one on TV:).
>
> I also note that over in the FreeBSD camp they have a "ch" device,
accessed
> with the "chio" command. Some Linux equivalent for this arrangement
could
> also solve my problem.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Sam Bayne -NT,Novell,HP-UX,Linux Sysadmin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> North Seattle Community College/Computing Services
> 9600 College Way N/Seattle,WA 98133
> --------------------------------------------------
Sam,
I have played around with 2 programs. Gerd Knorr's scsi changer module and
mtx. I had
the most success with mtx. It is on the www.dandelion.com linux page.
It's from the guy
who wrote the Buslogic driver for Linux. I could get the tapes to change.
I just had
problems making it work with BRU and modifying their changer script to make
it work.
If you success in making mtx work well with BRU please let me know.
Lester
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