If you're talking Unix, you could mount it with robtest and use mt(1) to do
the "normal" things...e.g.,

        mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rew
        mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status

(You mean this isn't a question in the Taos sysadmin trivia game!?  Oh wait,
they've changed it to a Flash-based SimCityesque thing...;)



-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham AT taos DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:57 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] drive test utility?


Is there a utility within the media manager that will excercise a single
tape drive with blank media inside?

I don't want to run robtest and lock out the robotics, I just want to
have something do "normal" things to the drive like rewind, write,
rewind, forward, and read.  Is one inside NB somewhere?

Thanks!



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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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