[buug] Translation for Suns

[David S.]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:54:59AM -0800, Feedlebom wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Brian Pecson wrote:
> 
> > /sbin/scu show edt 
> > 
> > in Digital to get a list of DAT drives on a given system, but find that
> > this command does not work with Suns.  I've found some other commands that
> > give information on DAT drives on Suns, but only if you know the name of
> > the device.  Does anyone know how to get a full list (with details) of the
> > tape drives on a Sun?
> 
> I don't believe there is a standard tool in Solaris to do this.
> 

Roll your own:

	#! /bin/sh
	for td in `echo /dev/rmt/[0-9]`
	do
	   if mt -f $td status > /dev/null 2>&1
	   then
	      echo $td
	      mt -f $td status
	   fi
	done

... or something similar.

David S.

> -Fedl
> 
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