The barcode is printed on the physical label on the tape.  It is read
by a laser and stored in the changer memory.  I have no idea if the
changer can print barcode labels but there is software that can.  I
buy my tapes AIT-2 with barcodes labels already on them so that is
another option.

On 16 Aug 2002, Jason Greenberg wrote:

- Then how do you set the barcode?  Is it a physical label?  If my libary
- reads bar codes, will it also print them?
-
- On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 16:25, Stephen Carville wrote:
- > On 15 Aug 2002, Jason Greenberg wrote:
- >
- > - What's the difference between labels and barcodes?  Why, when I label
- > - tapes, does the VolumeTag="" not show up for that tape?
- >
- > To amanda, a label is the information in the fist part of a tape.  It
- > identifies what backup set the tape belongs to, when it was last used,
- > etc.  Labels have nothing to do with the 'Volume Tag" which are from
- > the barcodes.
- >
- > --
- > -- Stephen Carville
- > UNIX and Network Administrator
- > DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services)
- > 310-342-3602
- > stephen AT totalflood DOT com
- >
- >
-

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-- Stephen Carville
UNIX and Network Administrator
DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services)
310-342-3602
stephen AT totalflood DOT com