Thanks for the feedback Andrew!
Thank you Bill! It's always a pleasure to be here :).

Regards,
Ana

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Noonan <anoo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to close this thread out, I was able to erase the labels on the
> tapes and have been successfully labeling tapes.  Next stop, backups!
>
> Thanks All!
> Andrew
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Bill Arlofski <waa-bac...@revpol.com>
> wrote:
> > On 06/19/2015 03:58 PM, Andrew Noonan wrote:
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >>      Yeah, I did that a few posts back.
> >
> > heh, no idea how I missed that. I'll chalk it up to a very busy week!
> >
> >
> >> Unfortunately, there isn't a
> >> keen mapping that specifically connects the SCSI devices to the
> >> internal drive numbering that the changer uses, so commands against
> >> the changer (mtx) would use the drive number, but commands against the
> >> drive (mt) would use the devices.  Once Ana saw that my "drive 1" was
> >> showing ONLINE when a tape was loaded and not my drive 0, she
> >> connected the dots and had me swap the devices.
> >
> > Glad to see it is working correctly now.
> >
> > Ana has been very busy in here lately!  Thank you Ana! :)
> >
> >> Rest assured that the
> >> actual device names I swapped are the /dev/tape/by-id names, as I
> >> agree with you that they're a much better way to handle things.
> >
> > Yes, I think this is the only way to go when there are more than one
> SCSI tape
> > and/or changer. Actually, these days I use the by-id node even when
> there is
> > one drive. I think it is a good habit.
> >
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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