On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Robert Borowicz rob-7704@austin.rr.com wrote:
That was my initial intention, but the mainframe guys (its a shared frame in which I have 200 slots and 2 drives) looked at me funny when I asked them to login to the interface they carved it up with and asked them to mount a tape for me..... "that's not possible, with the web interface, you do all that with Tivoli..."
I dont know about the IBM robotics specifically, but any other robot I know, you can just open the door, grab a tape and insert it into a drive. The drive will load the tape and you're ready to go!
Offcourse, it does mean opening the door, which tends to put the robot in an idle state for a few minutes, which might something the mainframe will bark about.
Greets,
Nils