python-mt-st 0.1.4

Module for controlling magnetic tape drives under Linux from Python

A magnetic tape drive controller ✨🍰✨

A Python module for controlling magnetic tape drives under Linux from Python. The module can control magnetic tape drive operation, just like mt variants (mt-st, mt-gnu, etc.) under Unix-like OSs. User can do control operations and erase the cartridge. This implementation is based on mt-gnu. In the next version we will move to communicate with linux st driver via ioctl instead.

Usage

[TODO]

Prerequisites

1. Current version is wrapping mt-gnu. Make sure mt-gnu is in your execution path.
2. root privilege needed by magnetic tape drive operations
3. Python 3

Install

1. $ cd [project_home]
2. $ pip install .

Testing

1. You need either a real tape drive or use mhvtl as a simulate tape drive.
2. After tape drive is ready, update tape drive information in test/tape_conf.py
3. run test cases by $ nosetests tests