Re: Automating a tar -M... Looking for ideas

dfrench_at_mtxia.com
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 09:14:29 -0800

cyber0ne wrote:
> Worth testing. My tape device doesn't physically eject tapes, but
> rather (when given such a command) places the device into an offline
> state. Hopefully, testing the status after "ejecting" won't detect
the
> still-in-the-device tape and think it's the next one. It will likely
> work fine, but I'll have to test next time I'm at the console.
>
> Sidebar: I've never seen the tctl command before, rather been using
mt
> instead. Being somewhat new to tape devices, is there a benefit of
one
> command over the other? Perusing the man pages shows them to be
pretty
> similar. If it's relevant, the device is a Seagate Travan TR-5 10/20
> IDE drive and the system hosting it is an old PC running Slackware
> Linux.

Not sure of the differences (outside of syntax) other than "tctl" is
the AIX way of doing things. "tctl" may have more subcommands and
options than mt, but basically the same thing. 

-- 
Dana French

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