MTX
- Programs
- mtx is the media changer control program tapeinfo dumps some interesting stuff out of tape drives' mode pages and sense pages. loaderinfo dumps some interesting stuff out of loaders' mode pages and sense pages. scsitape sends raw SCSI commands to tape drives. Do not use this unless you know exactly what you're doing, because you can easily get into a feud with the system's own tape driver and end up locking up the whole system.
- INSTALLATION
WARNING: MUST HAVE GNU 'make' TO DO THIS! (e.g. use 'gmake' on freebsd, not BSD 'make'!).
Type ./configure to create a Makefile. Type 'make', then 'make install'. Type 'man mtx' for info about mtx, and 'man tapeinfo' for info about tapeinfo. Enjoy.
- Credits
The original 'mtx' program is copyright 1996-1997 by Leonard Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com>. This version was modified for multi-drive, optical changer, and tape library support by Eric Lee Green <eric@estinc.com>. Also added FreeBSD support. Please see the man page for current info, and the file 'mtx.doc' for historical info.
My thanks to Doug Bonnell of Breece Hill for suggestions on dynamically allocating element info, Tien That Ton of Tandberg for being the original tester of the Import/Export Element stuff, Ken Porter for RPM's, William D. Smith for the HP/UX port, Kai Makisara for the barcode backoff fix, and to all the other people out there who have used it, found problems with it, and let me know about it (you know who you are).
-- Eric Lee Green <eric@estinc.com>