User Guide

Ampex 1308904-X4 Preliminary Draft 1-1
ACL Application Programmer’s Guide General Information
Section 1
General Information
1.1 Introduction
This manual describes how to use the Ampex DST/DIS Automated Cartridge Library (ACL)
software installed on your UNIX host system. The ACL software includes Management
Utilities and a
libacl Application Programming Interface (API).
The ACL Management Utilities are a set of programs that provide command-line access to an
Ampex DST or DIS ACL. They are compatible with the DST/DIS Tape Management (DD-2)
Utilities. Both sets of utilities are designed for use in scripts that perform higher-level
operations, so they use a consistent set of input and output conventions that make them easy
to link together.
The
libacl API is a set of C Library functions that simplify communication, control, and
integration of Ampex ACLs. The API presents a consistent, platform-independent abstract
layer that provides access to the ACL device driver and also to native SCSI passthru device
driver interfaces
Information in this manual that is unique to particular models of the ACL is identified by series
number (see listing below); all other information is common to all models of the ACL.
The following ACL models are covered by this manual:
• Ampex DIS 220i and DIS 260i (series 2XX)
• Ampex DST 410 (series 4XX)
• Ampex DST 810 (series 8XX)
1.2 Supported UNIX Operating Systems
The ACL device driver is supported on the following UNIX operating systems:
• Digital Equipment Corporation Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OS/F 1)
• Hewlett Packard HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• Silicon Graphics IRIX
• Sun Microsystems Solaris