Unloading Autoloader Magazines

Fri Mar 5 11:31:08 PST 2004

* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* Gerry.Houlder at seagate.com
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I had another silly question about your autoloader implementation. How do
you differentiate between unloading a tape and ejecting the entire
magazine? Is this by sending the Unload command to LUN 0 to unload a tape
and sending the command to LUN 1 to unload the entire magazine?

                      Dennis.W.Painter at c                                                                                
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* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* Dennis.W.Painter at certance.com
*

Hi Michael,

Yes. Our DAT autoloader has a single SCSI port. LUN 0 is the tape drive and
LUN 1 is the media changer.

We have implemented magazine eject using the SSC Unload command directed to
LUN 1 (the media change) This is obviously not per standards hence my query
about adding some standard method of ejecting magazines via a SCSI command.

Dennis Painter
Certance
dennis.painter at certance.com
714-641-2564

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