I wrote a small perl program to parse the output. Not sure if its the only 
way, but it was the easiest way I could find to then find an empty slow, since 
you can't insert a tape without it knowing what slot to put it in :(

- Andy Steingruebl

"Jewell, Jason T" said:

>Hi all,
>
>I think this has been treated before, but is there a good way to get a
>listing of empty slots in a robot via vmcheckxxx or vmquery?
>
>When I run these two commands, they list all the full slots and leave out
>the empty ones, so I could find the empty ones that way of course, but I was
>curious if anyone knows of a way to do this directly.  When getting an
>inventory through xvmadm, it does list empty slots - does it just notice a
>missing one and say "empty" ... ?
>
>There are several entries in the archives about this, but none of them
>seemed like a definitive answer, so I would be very grateful to know
>anyone's thoughts.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jason Jewell
>NCR - Global Processing Center
>937-445-4173
>
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