Re: [PLUG] tape drive woes

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:36:37PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> /dev/sga - changer Dell storage vault 128T
> /dev/sgc - changer HP surestore

Can't say as I've experience with either.

> Both are tape libraries. I think that this is what you mean by robot.

Sort of. "Robot" is by no means a technical term, but "library"
isn't much better. A tape library could have one drive or many. It
could be more or less automated. It could involve something that
swaps tapes into the drives, or it could just be a bunch of drives
with a single tape each.

> Here's a /proc/scsi/scsi:
> 
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: C7200            Rev: 131D
>   Type:   Medium Changer                   ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: Ultrium 1-SCSI   Rev: E15V
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: C7145-8000       Rev: 2060
>   Type:   Medium Changer                   ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: QUANTUM  Model: DLT8000          Rev: 0114
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> Any other clues worth looking into?

Sure that both of these conform to the ANSI rev2 standard? (Who
cares what they claim, do they *really*?)

Beyond that, this is the kind of thing I'd want to tinker with
myself. Let me let it stew for a little while, I'll see if I think
of anything.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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