On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bo Ossinger wrote:

>At 09:38 AM 11/21/97 -0600, Scott Temonia wrote:
>>How do I label tapes on a 3570.  If I use the Sequential Media Labeler
>>utility, the 3570 drives are not listed.  I know I labeled tapes once
>>before but I can't remember for the life of me how I did it.
>
>We use 3570/B02's, so have to specify the element number (16) on the drive.
> I'm not sure if this is required for a single drive 3570.
>
> dsmlabel -drive=/dev/rmt1,16 -library=/dev/rmt1.smc -search -keep

  We just tried this on our new 3575/L12.  We were hoping that dsmlabel
would read the bar-code from each tape and label accordingly, but this does
not appear to be the case.  It prompted for a label and labeled the tape in
the lowest slot we had a cartridge in.  This suggests that if we want the
bar-code label to match the label written on the tape we're going to have
enter each label by hand.  Also, it's not at all clear how best to
coordinate bulk loading thirty tapes into the library with labeling.

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