Re: Select a tape in a TS2900 magazine programmatically

Both BRMS and ROBOT have those “drivers” built in. That’s a large part of their value.

With MSE installed the hooks for that software exist so you can write the commands to load a specific tape (ROBOT does this on its own without MSE).

You need to find the interface between MSE and the library. I suggest looking at the 3584 tape library for that documentation.

As to documentation I have not recently found any but back in the V5 days i remember seeing it.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Nov 24, 2024, at 5:10 AM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Buck,

Am 22.11.2024 um 22:18 schrieb Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>:

All good ideas, thank you! I didn't find anything except many references to BRMS. There is an exit program that fires what a tape is moved, but that is just reporting what happened, not a way to actually move it.

Good to know. Although I'm pretty sure there is some piece missing. What is a media library "driver" worth if you can't instruct it to load a certain piece of media?

:wq! PoC



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