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Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Changer Utility for Solaris

2007-09-09 16:47:11
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media Changer Utility for Solaris
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Tim Hoke <thoke AT northpeak DOT org>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 16:27:39 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Tim Hoke wrote:

> More specifically, use the appropriate *test utility and pipe the
> commands to it... for a tld type robot you might do the following to
> move slot 1 to drive 1:
>
> echo "m s1 d1" | tldtest -r /dev/sg/<robotic_device>
>
> I'm not at my system right now, but I seem to recall that being the usage.
>
> HTH
> -Tim
>
> On 9/9/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, selwyn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I had written a script to match locations of robotic drives with their 
>>> device path for HP-UX.  I used the mc utility to move a tape from one drive 
>>> to the next and then used mt to find out which device path matched the 
>>> physical drive path.  I would like to do create a script for solaris to do 
>>> the same task, but there is no mc utility native to Solaris.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me a solaris equivalent for the HP-UX mc utility?
>>>
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>> Why not just use robtest?
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That is a good question then, I am not sure robtest can take input from a 
pipe.
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