MTX 1.3.11 [PSARC/2008/457 FastTrack timeout 07/24/2008]

[Garrett D'Amore]

Chris Liu wrote:
> Garrett,
>
> This set of tools are at userland and using ioctl interface with 
> command USCSICMD to
> send commands to target drivers. Any target driver supports USCSICMD 
> can support
> the tools.

Thanks.

    -- Garrett
>
> -Chris
>
> Garrett D'Amore 写道:
>> How does it interact with the rest of the SCSI framework? Does it sit 
>> above the sgen layer? Or uscsi, or something else? (This is just 
>> wanted for completeness, I think.)
>>
>> -- Garrett
>>
>> Mark Carlson wrote:
>>> I am sponsoring this case for Chris Liu. It requests a Patch binding 
>>> and times out on 7/24/2008.
>>>
>>> -- mark
>>>
>>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI
>>> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
>>> 1. Introduction
>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>> MTX 1.3.11
>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>> Author: Chris Liu
>>> 1.3 Date of This Document:
>>> 17 July, 2008
>>> 2. Project Summary
>>> 2.1. Project Description
>>>
>>> This project introduces the package of MTX 1.3.11, a set of media
>>> changer tools into the SFW consolidation.
>>> 4. Technical Description
>>> MTX is a set of low level driver programs to control features of SCSI
>>> backup related devices such as autoloaders, tape changers, media
>>> jukeboxes, and tape drives. It can also report much data, including
>>> serial numbers, maximum block sizes, and TapeAlert? messages that most
>>> modern tape drives implement, as well as do raw SCSI READ and WRITE
>>> commands to tape drives. MTX is designed to be a low level driver in
>>> a larger scripted backup solution, such as Bacula or Amanda. MTX is not
>>> supposed to itself be a high level interface to the SCSI devices that
>>> it controls.
>>>
>>> 5. Interfaces
>>>
>>> Exported interface Classification Interface type
>>> =============================== ============== ==============
>>> SUNWmtx Uncommitted Package name
>>> /usr/sbin/mtx Uncommitted Command
>>> /usr/sbin/tapeinfo Uncommitted Command
>>> /usr/sbin/loaderinfo Uncommitted Command
>>> /usr/sbin/scsitape Uncommitted Command
>>> /usr/sbin/scsieject Uncommitted Command
>>> /usr/sbin/nsmhack Uncommitted Command
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/mtx.1 Uncommitted manpage
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/tapeinfo.1 Uncommitted manpage
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/loaderinfo.1 Uncommitted manpage
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/scsitape.1 Uncommitted manpage
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/scsieject.1 Uncommitted manpage
>>> 6. Resources and Schedule
>>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
>>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
>>> SFW
>>> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
>>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>>>
>>
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