>
> Our Storagetek L80 tape library (yes, the infamous one that you're tired
> of hearing about) does not support the moving of media via the LED
> panel. Our ATL tape libraries do. We would like to be able to move tapes
> in and out of drives outside the purview of NetWorker. I know this will
> require having to use some of the utilities under /etc/LGTOuscsi like:
>
> movemed
> sjimm
> ldunld

Not necessarily.  You could just use
'nsrjb -l -n -S <slot> -f <drive>'
and
'nsrjb -u -S <slot>'

right?

> Can someone provide me with an example of how to move a tape from slot
> 30 into drive 1 (/dev/nst0) so as to have the tape available for use
> with tar utility and an example of how to unload the tape and move it
> back after tar completes?

'nsrjb -l -n -S 30 -f /dev/nst0'
(possibly associated with a command to disable the drive from the
networker point of view so it doesn't try to use it while the foriegn
tape is inside).

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