Re: Problems with chio tape changer under NetBSD

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Malcolm Herbert writes:
- This may affect other versions of *BSD which also use chio to manage 
- the tape changer, I don't know ... 

Why not use chg-scsi?  It knows how to use the chio
ioctl(2) interfaces to manipulate the robots.  I use it to run
my Exabyte EXB-480 robot, my HP/Compaq SureStore DLT robot, and
my Archive 4586NP loader.

I run on NetBSD 1.5.*, on an AlphaPC64. (previously on
NetBSD 1.3 on i386)  I wrote the predecessor of chg-scsi on the
NetBSD 1.3 system.

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Problems with chio tape changer under NetBSD

[Malcolm Herbert]

This may affect other versions of *BSD which also use chio to manage 
the tape changer, I don't know ... 

I seem to be having problems with the chg-chio script to manage my
tape changer (an ExaByte Mammoth 10-tape unit) - chg-chio appears to
want to change tapes that aren't present, even when chio has told it
so ... 

Does anyone else have these problems with it?  I am thinking of 
rewriting it from scratch, but I want to make sure someone hasn't already
done so ... 

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