I think you can go ahead and use bplabel -ev 12345 -d dlt -n drive1


give it a shot

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Worman [mailto:rob AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:35 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: Best way to inventory a TSD?


(using NBU 3.1.1 on Solaris)

Speaking of inventorying a TSD, what's the best way to get labels 
onto a new tape?  (keeping in mind I have no barcodes, so therefore I 
can't rely on barcode rules)

If I try this...
================

     use robtest to mount tape (m s1 d1)
     run "bplabel -ev 123456 -d dlt -u 0
         (the u 0 tells it to write on drive index 0, as reported by
xdevadm)

bplabel says:
=============

           "cannot assign a robotically controlled device"

which leaves me feeling like I have to redefine my tape drive as a 
standalone, which I'd really rather not do just for the purpose of 
adding tapes...

TiA
rob



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