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Re: Labeling Tapes on a 3570

1997-11-21 13:28:50
Subject: Re: Labeling Tapes on a 3570
From: "Rodney S. Richeson" <rricheson AT AMXINC DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 10:28:50 -0800
Did you use the label=barcode switch for the dsmlabel command?

Rod Richeson
AMX Systems, Inc.
rricheson AT amxinc DOT com

Aidan Evans wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bo Ossinger wrote:
>
> >At 09:38 AM 11/21/97 -0600, Scott Temonia wrote:
> >>How do I label tapes on a 3570.  If I use the Sequential Media Labeler
> >>utility, the 3570 drives are not listed.  I know I labeled tapes once
> >>before but I can't remember for the life of me how I did it.
> >
> >We use 3570/B02's, so have to specify the element number (16) on the drive.
> > I'm not sure if this is required for a single drive 3570.
> >
> > dsmlabel -drive=/dev/rmt1,16 -library=/dev/rmt1.smc -search -keep
>
>   We just tried this on our new 3575/L12.  We were hoping that dsmlabel
> would read the bar-code from each tape and label accordingly, but this does
> not appear to be the case.  It prompted for a label and labeled the tape in
> the lowest slot we had a cartridge in.  This suggests that if we want the
> bar-code label to match the label written on the tape we're going to have
> enter each label by hand.  Also, it's not at all clear how best to
> coordinate bulk loading thirty tapes into the library with labeling.
>
> Aidan Evans | AE AT AC.Dal DOT CA | Computer Facilities & Operations
>             | 494-3332     | University Computing & Information Services
>                            | Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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