https://github.com/speed47/lto-info
Tool to read information in Ultrium LTO Cartridges from a tape drive
https://github.com/speed47/lto-info
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Tool to read information in Ultrium LTO Cartridges from a tape drive
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/speed47/lto-info
- Owner: speed47
- Created: 2021-05-02T23:15:36.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-01T13:50:10.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-26T20:51:17.007Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: lto, lto-cm, tape-drive, ultrium
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 17.6 KB
- Stars: 23
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
LTO Info Tool
=============
This tool reads the internal memory of LTO/Ultrium cartridges from a tape drive ðŸ–
More precisely, this tool can:
- Read, decode and display factory and usage information stored in the Cartridge Memory (`CM`) aka Medium Auxiliary Memory (`MAM`)
- View and modify the custom `User Medium Text Label` of a cartridge
- Display basic information about the tape drive device
## :hammer: How to build and use
You need to have a go build environment [properly set up](https://golang.org/doc/install), then just type:
```
make
```
And try the tool by typing:
```
./lto-info
```
By default, the tool will look for a tape device in `/dev/nst0`, or what is pointed to by the `TAPE` environment variable. To specify another device, use the `-d` option.
## :mag: Output example
```
Drive information:
Vendor : HP
Model : Ultrium 2-SCSI
Firmware: F63D
Medium information:
Cartridge Type: 0x00 - Data cartridge
Medium format : 0x42 - LTO-2
Formatted as : 0x42 - LTO-2
Assign. Org. : LTO-CVE
Manufacturer : IMATION
Serial No : 0E00776390
Manuf. Date : 2011-12-07 (roughly 9.4 years ago)
Tape length : 609 meters
Tape width : 12.7 mm
MAM Capacity : 4096 bytes (1014 bytes remaining)
Format specs:
Capacity : 200 GB native - 400 GB compressed with a 2:1 ratio
R/W Speed : 40 MB/s native - 80 MB/s compressed
Partitions: 1 max partitions supported
Phy. specs: 4 bands/tape, 16 wraps/band, 8 tracks/wrap, 512 total tracks
Duration : 1h23 to fill tape with 64 end-to-end passes (78 seconds/pass)
Usage information:
Partition space free : 96% (193746/200448 MiB, 189/195 GiB, 0.18/0.19 TiB)
Cartridge load count : 13
Data written - alltime: 81983 MiB ( 80.06 GiB, 0.08 TiB, 0.41 FVE)
Data read - alltime: 20674 MiB ( 20.19 GiB, 0.02 TiB, 0.10 FVE)
Data written - session: 0 MiB ( 0.00 GiB, 0.00 TiB, 0.00 FVE)
Data read - session: 139 MiB ( 0.14 GiB, 0.00 TiB, 0.00 FVE)
Previous sessions:
Session N-0: Used in a device of vendor HP (serial HU10625W0T)
Session N-1: Used in a device of vendor HP (serial HU10625W0T)
Session N-2: Used in a device of vendor HP (serial HUP9B067QF)
Session N-3: Used in a device of vendor HP (serial HUP9B067QF)
```
## :gem: Build-time dependencies
- https://github.com/HewlettPackard/structex: encode/decode bitfields in SCSI structs in a readable way
- https://github.com/benmcclelland/mtio: go bindings for `mt` ioctls
- https://github.com/benmcclelland/sgio: go bindings for `sgio` ioctls
- https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags: command-line options parser
## :hearts: Thanks
Inspired from other tools written in C:
- https://github.com/arogge/maminfo
- https://github.com/scangeo/lto-cm/
Big up to them!