>Ok, I'm going to ask one of those questions that I'm sure there's a
>simple answer to, but I can't find it!
>Scsi jukeboxes use an element address to have the robot access a
>drive. The 3494 doesn't do this, but I can't figure out what it does
>do! When I define a drive in the 3494 to TSM, all I specify is the
>AIX device name (/dev/rmtx), which the 3494 has no knowledge of. How
>does tsm/3494 figure out which drive to mount a tape in?
Oh, Rick, you have to know everything!! :-)
The place to go for insights is the device drivers programming manual,
found on the FTP site, in the devdrvr directory.
Mounts occur via a Device Number, and there is an MTDEVICE ioctl
request type to obtain that number via the tape file descriptor.
Richard Sims, BU
