On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 5:25pm, David Flood wrote

First thing's first -- could we trim a bit here folks.  Furrfu.

> Firstly thankyou Jon and Gene for answering my first email. Sorry I forgot to 
> specify my 
> setup. It's as follows:
> 
> amanda 2.4.3
> Solaris 8
> Overland DLT80 (10 tape changer)
> 
> Under /dev/rmt I only have '0' which is the one I'm using to get access to 
> the drive. 
> What is mtx and is it possible I could use this? There was no examples of 
> this file under 

mtx is a bit of software used to control changers.  See here:

http://mtx.badtux.net/

> the examples directory of the amanda distribution. I am looking at sgen and 
> thus far 

mtx is used with the chg-zd-mtx changer described in docs/TAPE.CHANGERS 
and documented in the changer script itself, which gets installed into 
/usr/local/libexec by default.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University