Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:42:02PM +0200, Sven Rudolph wrote:

> > This seems to assume that the tapes are in consecutive
> > slots. (amverify seems to have this limit, and amverifyrun does not
> > work around this.)
> > 
> 
> As amverifyrun is simply a shell script that calls amverify telling
> it the number of tapes, it is not surprising that it would suffer
> the same defects.
> 
> Is there a way, other than "amtape ... show" to get a list of the
> tapes currently in the changer?  I'd like to think there was an
> alternative to going through each slot individually unless necessary.
> 
> I can imagine a way to modify amverifyrun to call amverify to do
> specific slots one at a time.  However, it would take knowledge of
> what tapes are in the changer.

IMHO "amtape label" should be sufficient. So you only need the labels
of the tapes that were written today. Then you can insert them with
"amtape label". (This needs some kind of barcode support (real or
emulated).)

        Sven