On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:40:00PM -0800, Levinson, Donald A. wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to access the information on the LTO-CM chip?
> I am interested in finding the total life usage of my tapes to determine
> when to end-o-life a cartridge.
> My drives are 3580 IBM and they are connected to an AIX system. I looked
> in the manual for tapeutil but it doesn't mention any such capability.

I have patched tapeutil to give you some usefull information out of the
tape drives/carctridges.
The patch for tapeutil 1.58 is able to show part of the MAM.
See http://www.mesa.nl to see example output of the patched taputil.
Follow the download link and then the tapeutil link.


-Marcel
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