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diff --git a/misc/mtx/pkg-descr b/misc/mtx/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..89b3425491f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/mtx/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Mtx(1) is a set of low level driver programs to control features of SCSI +backup related devices such as autoloaders, tape changers, mediajukeboxes, +and tape drives. It can also report much data, including serial numbers, +maximum block sizes, and TapeAlert(tm) messages that most modern tape +drives implement, as well as do raw SCSI READ and WRITE commands to +tape drives. + +It works like chio(1) but supports more features and drives and runs in +users land. There are some amanda (misc/amanda24-server) scripts, which +depend on mtx. + +WWW: http://mtx.sourceforge.net/ |