SUMMARY: command to cycle to another tape in magazine (fwd)

From: Marc Wiatrowski (wia@uno.cc.geneseo.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 02 1996 - 10:35:16 CDT


Hi,

Well thanks to everyone who replied/is repling. Its amazing, I got
several answers before I even recieved my own question over the list.

Thought there was many the first was Tim Evans, thanks to all.

ANSWER:
Some autoloaders will load the next tape in the stack when you eject
the current one with 'mt -f /dev/rmt/X offline'. I don't know if
this one will, but give it a try.

QUESTION:
>I have 20 Gbyte 4mm Tape Auto-loader which holds 4 tapes. Its connected
>to a Sparc 20 running solaris 2.4. I was wondering if there is a command
>to cycle to the next tape before it actually gets there. In other words,
>I want to be able to use each tape individually instead of as one unit.
>
>I can do this manually with the "step" button, but is there a command or
>method to do this? is it even possible?
>



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