On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:55:01AM -0400, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> Cool - the model I grabbed was an Archive 4586NP.  Seems to work no
> problem.  One [strange?] thing about it is that to change tapes, I have to
> do an 'chio ielem' first (which ejects the current tape) then an 'chio
> move slot x drive 0' to load the new tape.  I thought I'd just be able to
> 'chio move xxxxx' and it would eject the current tape for me, but I guess
> that it makes sense (since I'd have to tell the machine where I want the
> tape to go after it's ejected).  A 'chio move drive 0 slot x' didn't work,
> either.  Not problems, just different than I thought it might work :-)

With my DLT changer I have to eject the tape first (mt offline), then
store the current tape to a slot (chio move drive 0 slot x) before loading
a new one.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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