Tim your idea worked.  I was able to load a tape and move it from one drive to 
the next drive using a combination of tldtest commands and mt to offline the 
tape.  I think tldtest may support offlining the tapes as well but I have not 
tested this feature.

The syntax is as you described--use echo to send command to tld test.  This is 
not quite as clean as the HP-UX mc utility but it will work.  

Symantec article describing how to use tldtest from the command line is 266221. 
 

The script is used to configure drives in a library at a remote site.  The 
script creates the map of where the drives are located in the tape library and 
matches this up with the device files and feeds the information to tpconfig to 
set up the drives.

I looked at mtx and it could work, but it will require use of the sgen driver 
with solaris which may or may not work with NBU.  I prefer to stick with the sg 
driver as this is supported by Symantec.

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