mtx-announce — Announcements

[Mtx-announce] MTX: Media Changer Tools ver 1.3.12 (stable) released

[Robert N. <rob...@us...>]

You may download it using the following URL:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4626
 
Release 1.3.12 of the stable version of MTX fixes a problem when UNIT 
ATTENTION is pending when mtx is started. This can occur if the door is 
opened on some libraries or the SCSI bus is reset. The change eliminates 
the requirement to rerun the mtx command. 
 
The unsupported program nsmhack is no longer built by default or 
included in any of the binary packages. It is still included in the 
source tar and can be built manually using 'make nsmhack'. 
 
Debian packaging support has been added. 
 
A big change in this release is that binary builds are released for the 
most common Linux distributions and FreeBSD. There are builds for the 
latest version of each, as well as the one or two previous versions.

I will be monitoring the versions of MTX included in each distribution 
and removing them from SourceForge as they are included as part of the 
standard distribution.  If you don't see the binary package available on 
SourceForge check your Operating System vendor for updates.

Robert Nelson
MTX Project Maintainer

[Mtx-announce] New Release - 1.3.11

[Robert N. <rob...@us...>]

Version 1.3.11 has just been released to SourceForge.

You may download it using the following URL:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4626

Release 1.3.11 of the development version of MTX adds a new utility
"scsieject".  This utility is used to send the commands: load, unload,
start, stop, lock and unlock to media transfer devices.  These commands may
be required by some devices prior to unloading media or after loading new
media using mtx.

The loaderinfo utility has been enhanced to provide more information about
the supported transfer and exchange operations.

The mtx utility has been enhanced to support the "previous" command to
unload the current medium and load the one in the next lower storage slot.
Also problems with the "last" command have been fixed.

Fixes for all known bugs and feature suggestions have been incorporated.
Also included are the patches from the Debian and FreeBSD distributions.

A bug that caused loaderinfo to incorrectly indicate that the EAAP (Element
Address Assignment Page) was not supported on a significant number of
loaders is fixed.  This bug prevented mtx from determining the correct
information about the number of storage, import/export, or data transfer
elements.

This release will be promoted to stable providing no issues are reported.

Robert Nelson
MTX Project Maintainer

[Mtx-announce] New Release - 1.3.10

[Robert N. <rob...@us...>]

Version 1.3.10 has just been released to SourceForge.

 

You may download it using the following URL:

 

      http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4626

 

This release contains the following changes:

 

- Add support for Microsoft Windows.

- Add support for Sony VGP-XL1B(2) Media Changer.

  Thanks to Will (nodenet at hotmail dot com)

- Add build support for Microsoft Windows using MinGW native

  and Linux cross-compile.

- Add build support for Microsoft Windows using 

  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

- Add support for building on AMD64 (x86_64).

- Add more debugging information.

- Eliminate compiler warnings.

 

Thanks,

 

Robert Nelson

(New mtx project maintainer)

 

[Mtx-announce] [Mtx-general] mtx 1.2.12pre2 now available for ftp (fwd)

[Eric L. G. <er...@es...>]

ftp://ftp.estinc.com/pub/unsupported/mtx-1.2.12pre2.tar.gz

Fixes to HP/UX support (probably still does not compile, alas, but getting
closer), and to the RPM .spec file, as well as having the new
ReadElementStatus() routine and FreeBSD and IRIX tpyo fixes that
mtx-1.2.12pre1.tar.gz had. I've also tweaked the documentation somewhat,
though there is one entry that I need to add to the FAQ (the FAQ "Why
doesn't mtx work on Red Hat 7.0?").

Still TODO before we can have a release mtx-1.2.12: Verify proper
operation on Solaris. I've had one report that it does not work on
Solaris. I can't duplicate that on my Solaris 8 box, but I'd like more
data points. 

-- 
Eric Lee Green                         er...@es...
Software Engineer                      "The BRU Guys"
Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.   http://www.estinc.com/
(602) 470-1115 voice                   (602) 470-1116 fax

[Mtx-announce] mtx 1.2.10 pre 3 now online

[Eric L. G. <er...@es...>]

In the usual place, ftp://ftp.estinc.com/pub/unsupported . 

I'd especially appreciate it if you could test out the .spec file for
building RPM's, I think I have it running, but ...

I have also added a FAQ and COMPATIBILITY list.  I'm sure nobody will read
them, but at least we can say "Read the FAQ!" :-). If anybody has
submissions for the FAQ or COMPATIBILITY list, please send them to myself
or to the list.

Current game plan: You've given me some new features to add to mtx, but I
decided it's important to get a stable mtx 1.2.10 out first prior to
starting to chew into it again. Thus if the above snapshot works, I'll go
ahead and christen it as mtx 1.2.10 and start on a mtx 1.2.11 that has the
new features that have been requested.

-- 
Eric Lee Green                         er...@es...
Software Engineer                      "The BRU Guys"
Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.   http://www.estinc.com/
(602) 470-1115 voice                   (602) 470-1116 fax

[Mtx-announce] mtx 1.2.8 pre 1

[Eric L. G. <er...@es...>]

mtx 1.2.8 pre 1 is now available at the usual place (
ftp://ftp.estinc.com/pub/unsupported ).  This is a test pre-release, but
should be reliable and stable (the changes are very minimal). 

Sooner or later we need to start thinking about making a mtx 1.9 (pre 2.0),
with some of the major changes that have been discussed.... as I've mentioned
earlier, I don't want to change mtx 1.2 very much beyond how it currently
works, due to the fact that we need a reliable, stable version of 'mtx'. 

-- 
Eric Lee Green                         er...@es...
Software Engineer                      Visit our Web page:
Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.   http://www.estinc.com/
(602) 470-1115 voice                   (602) 470-1116 fax