Accessing AIT MIC? (memory in cartridge)

[Daniel O'Connor]

> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 16:56:01 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> I had a look on Google for Linux or FreeBSD related stuff but no joy
>> :(
>
> It probably wouldn't be hard to talk to it if you had the specs on how
> to do it.  (It would only be a few SCSI commands to talk to it.)  You'd
> just have to teach your backup application how to write out the relevant
> data to the MIC part.

Hmm.. I did a bit more searching and it seems that it seems to be a
proposed standard -> 
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:FGU6McIYoNIJ:www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.99/99-223r1.pdf+AIT+MIC+SCSI+command&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
However, finding the gritty details seems considerably more difficult.

> IIRC, at least on the early AIT drives, not every AIT tape had the MIC
> feature.  The tapes that had it were a little more expensive.

Yeah that is true, mostly I am just curious about the feature :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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