Description:
pythonmtst3rdupdate 0.2.0.post20220816
A magnetic tape drive controller ✨🍰✨
A Python module for controlling magnetic tape drives under Linux. The module can perform tape drive operation, just like mt variants (mt-st, mt-gnu, etc.) under Unix-like OSs. For example, a user can rewind, forward/backward space, erase the cartridge, and so on. The current implementation is just a wrapper of mt-gnu. In the future, we will move to communicate with
Linux st driver directly via ioctl instead.
Usage
[TODO]
Prerequisites
Linux/Python 3
The current version is wrapping GNU tools. Make sure mt-gnu/mt-st/sg_logs is in your execution path.
Root privilege is necessary for operating a magnetic tape drive.
You will need either a real tape drive or use mhvtl as a simulate tape drive.
Install
$ cd [project_home]
$ pip install .
Tape Drive Configuration
You can find out what tape devices you
have by this guide.
Ensuring that the tape modes are properly set by following commands: (Assume your tape drive is in /dev/nst0)
mt -f /dev/nst0 stoptions buffer-writes async-writes read-ahead
mt -f /dev/nst0 defblksize 0
Testing
You need either a real tape drive or mhvtl for simulation.
After tape drive is ready, update tape drive information in test/tape_conf.py
run test cases by $ make test
License
For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.
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