Copying tapes from Stacker to IBM Silo

Copying tapes from 8mm Stacker to IBM Silo on Unix

M. Daoudi, 02-Feb-94

This note describes how to use the 8mm tape stacker on the Unix farm at SLAC to copy data tapes to the IBM silo for further use with a tape staging system to be implemented in the near future.
Up to 10 tapes can be copied in a single job. Once you have loaded your tapes on a stacker on one of the morgan machines, issue the following command:



$E143_COM/stack2silo taplis.fil stacker

taplis.fil:: is a file where you specify the labels of your input tapes and the labels of the silo cartridges. For the latter, ask Charlie Young or myself to find out what cartridges are allocated to E-143.
stacker:: is the stacker number you are using (0 or 1 at the moment).

Example: stack2silo tape.list 1
where tape.lis is as follows:
```
   tape041   qa0921
   tape042   qa0922
   tape045   qa0923
   tape051   qa0924
   .......   ......
```
(The first column corresponds to the input 8mm tapes, the second to the silo tapes.)

Note that, as usual, the stacker must be loaded from bottom to top. More on how to stage back the silo tapes for analysis on Unix in a later note.

Cheers!