On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> > Eject' LED code.  Commands accessing the tape (ie. 'mtx <dev> status') 
> > would simply go zombie, and refused to be killed until hitting the eject 
> > button on the front of the drive.
> 
> If I recall correctly, that unit is not a changer.
> The mtx command is only used to manipulate the changer part of a changer.
> The mt command is used to manipulate the tape drive itself.
> 
> On solaris, the mt command uses an argument of "offline" or "rewoffl"
> to eject the tape.

Erf, my bad.  I meant 'mt' in the first email, not 'mtx.'  The majority of 
command-line stuff I do is with the changer, 'mtx on the brain' I 
suppose...  Single tape unit, yes, DDS-3.

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"Exploits care not whence the clicks come..."

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