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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: identifying a backup tape on a drive
Keywords: tape identification
Message-ID: <1137@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 88 23:15:14 GMT
References: <157@leibniz.UUCP>
Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <157@leibniz.UUCP> tpc@leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara) writes:
>There's a group within our organization who are trying to provide an
>enhanced SDE.  One problem they've identified is in identifying the
>particular tape mounted on a drive...
>Tom Chmara			UUCP:  ..utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-di!leibniz!tpc

For UNIX(tm) System V I think /etc/labelit(1M) will do what you want.
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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM