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Check tape drive status on HP-UX

Hi all,

We have an ESL tape library with legato networker software. From GUI - networker administrator, i can see that 3 of our tape drives are in service mode.

How can i view the same thing by issuing commands in HP-UX.

Thanks in advance!

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mt - magnetic tape manipulating program

Code:

# mt status
Drive:  HP C1234A
Format: DDS-3 format
Status: [81112500] EOF online compression immediate-report-mode
File:   2
Block:  -1

./hari.sh

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