On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:46:52AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 at 5:24am, stan wrote
> 
> >On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:20:16AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> >>You can go ahead and write such a beast, but if the tapes are already
> >>labeled, amcheck can do that just fine.
> >
> >Mmm, as far as I know amcheck can tell me if the correct tape is loaded,
> >but I'll stil need to write something that will run amcheck, check the
> >results of it (does it return a status or do I have to check the text
> >it outputs), then run amtape next slot, check again, and loop untill
> >it gets a good status (or has checked all slots).
> 
> With my changer (and chg-zd-mtx), amtape will scan through all available 
> slots until it finds (or doesn't) the tape with the label it's expecting.
> 
Cool, perhaps mine will work that way if I label all the tapes?
I'm using cchg-multi with each "slot" consisting of a RAIT of 1 vatpe, 
one physical tape. The tape drive is a single tape unit, not a changer.
What amtape command are you issuing? None of the ones listed in the man
page seem to request this, as far as I can tell.

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