I have not used it with NetBackup, however I have seen it used by other 
applications against tape libraries.  It may in fact be the other way 
round - the SCSI command set includes (for some but not all libraries) the 
"init element status (with range)".  Robtest, being a generic utility, is 
just implementing the command because it is there.

If you had higher-level software that partitioned a library (as opposed to 
a library that does the partitioning and pretends to be several 
libraries), I can see a use for this command to ensure you are only doing 
the 'init element status' on the section of the library that you were 
supposed to use.

William D L Brown




"David Chapa" <david.chapa AT adic DOT com> 
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Hello everyone...Iâ??m curious about a robtest command that has been there 
as far back as I can remember (version 1.6).
 
Once you are in robtest the command is â??initrangeâ??
 
How many of you use initrange?  And if you do use it what do you use it 
for? 
 
Any Symantec (Veritas) input is welcomed as well.
 
Thanks very much,
David