Auto load tape into tape drive??

[j773303]

Does anyone knows how to auto-load the tape
into tape drive? Which command can do it?

[Stefan Farrelly]

You can only auto-load on a tape library/autloader, heres a script to do it. Note its the mc command which does it;

#
# Check DLT7000 Autoloader
#
PICKER=`mc -p /dev/picker -r DS|grep DT|awk '{print $2}'`

if [ $PICKER = "FULL" ]
then echo "Tape loaded"
else echo "No tape, Attempting to load tape from slot 1 PLEASE CHECK"
mc -p /dev/picker -s S1 -d D1
fi

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

Normal tape drive don't provide the option of auto load. We uses LTO(Linear tape open) with TSM(tivoli storage manager) which has the auto loading option

[Systeemingenieurs Infoc]

I once wrote some c-code with a lot of ioctl's in that could load a slot into a drive and vice versa.

If you're interested i can share it.

HeCou

[KAMARULZAMAN HJ ALI]

Hi, first you have to install Omniback to get /opt/omni/lbin/uma executable.
Then create a text file (e.g text_file) to move the tape from slot to drive
eg. To move tape from Slot 1 To drive 1,
So the text file (text_file)should be as below :
move S1 D1

then issue the following command :
#/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl /dev/rac/c#t#d0
Hopes will help.