I have recently...acquired...an AIT autoloader (Sony TSL-A300C), from a company that has gone the way of the dodo. It's a fairly nice unit that seems to play well with FC2 and I'm sure all *nix's. My question is, does anyone know how to remotely change tapes with it? The magazine has space for 4-25GB cassettes for a capacity of 200GB(compressed) but I don't know how to tell it to rotate the tape without pressing the "select" button then "enter" when I have highlighted the tape I want. I can't imagine it can't be done, but I've never used a tape drive that held more then 1 tape....anyone have experience with these models? Know of a good resource for them specifically with Linux?
Thanks, Steve
Have you installed the 'mt' tool set? I don't know how to make it choose an arbitrary slot but with loaders that I have I'll just do 'mt offline' to force the drive to eject the tape and then the autoloader will load the next one in line.
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