Re: mtx 1.2, anybody?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> wrote:
>mtx 1.2 ( http://mtx.sourceforge.net ) is a tape robotics control program
>that will control huge multi-drive tape libraries with hundreds of slots.
>It works with all modern tape robotics devices, except those which have
>multiple robotics arms visible to the SCSI bus (a few gigantic libraries
>with 500+ tape slots, the kind you walk into).  I've had a couple of
>people inquire about using it on Debian GNU/Linux, rather than the
>antiquated version 1.0 that apparently ships with Debian GNU/Linux that
>supports virtually no modern hardware.

Unfortunately, we generally don't apply such substantial upgrades to our
stable releases, as that would really make them no longer stable.
However, mtx 1.2.10 is already in Debian testing/unstable, and will be
in our next stable release.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]