Find info on volumes in I/O port of tape jukebox?

[goony]

I just migrated from a simple little Qualstar 22 slot tape jukebox (a single tape I/O) port to a Sun/StorageTek SL500 which is a modular unit - in my configuration, I have 15 tape I/O ports and 100 LTO cartridge slots.

From the (Unix) command line, I can issue withdraw command nsrjb -w <volume number> and it will take the tape from the slot and put it into the I/O port as expected.

Just curious: Is there any command line way to see what volume IDs are in these slots at a particular moment? I can use a relem command (operating at a more primitive level than the nsrjb command) to see if the I/O ports are empty or loaded, but not the volume ID.

Thanks!

P.S. I found the Qualstar QLS-8222 unit very dependable - used it for 5 years with no problems on the jukebox itself... HP LTO1 tape drives had occasional problems, the IBM LTO2 drives were rock-solid.

 

[new2me]

nsrjb | more

this should tell you the volume and slot it's in, and, what volume is mount in which drive and the slot it belong to.

 

[Chapter11]

If you're asking if Networker can see what volumes are loaded in the jukebox mailslots, I don't believe it's possible. It's not a universally supported feature on all jukebox and silo models.

 

[goony]

nsrjb | more

this should tell you the volume and slot it's in, and, what volume is mount in which drive and the slot it belong to.

Nope, that doesn't show the I/O or "mailslots".

If you're asking if Networker can see what volumes are loaded in the jukebox mailslots, I don't believe it's possible. It's not a universally supported feature on all jukebox and silo models.

That's sort of what I figured. For now, I'll just use the info that I can at least tell what I/O ports are used and which ones are empty.

I need to update the web-based operator interface that I wrote now that I have 15 possible I/O slots instead of just one.

Thanks to all!

p.s. My old Qualstar model was a TLS-8222, not a QLS-8222.

 

[Martin999]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but NMC (Networker Management Console) I think shows the volumes in the CAP.

If not, does the jukebox have a GUI interface.

Martin

 

[Rif123]

Hi,

You can see the barcode from the command sjirdtag for all the slots including the CAP.

 

[goony]

You can see the barcode from the command sjirdtag for all the slots including the CAP.

BINGO! That did the trick.

I spent some time going through the docs of various sji* programs but I must have missed that one.

Thanks!!

 

[goony]

Here is the I/O "mailbox" portion of the output from the sjirdtag command (with tapes in the first 5 ports):
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Tag Data for scsidev@4.0.0, Element Type IMPORT/EXPORT:
Elem[001]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=1 imp_exp=0
VolumeTag=<000142>
Elem[002]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=1 imp_exp=0
VolumeTag=<000158>
Elem[003]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=1 imp_exp=0
VolumeTag=<000181>
Elem[004]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=1 imp_exp=0
VolumeTag=<000182>
Elem[005]: tag_val=1 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=1 imp_exp=0
VolumeTag=<000180>
Elem[006]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[007]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[008]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[009]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[010]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[011]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[012]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[013]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[014]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
Elem[015]: tag_val=0 pres_val=1 inp_enab=1 exp_enab=1 access=1 full=0 imp_exp=0
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