Wiki & English

[harrypm]

There is a lack of software for LTO outside of enterprise thank you for this tool.

The applicaiton however does not auto change based on system language, if not possible to update please make detailed wiki of GUI function in english or standard chinese so its auto translatable as this tool is quite useful.

[zhaoyangwx]

Thank you for your advice. I will make it multi-language compatible in the next 1 or 2 releases, but wiki may not be very recent because the technical details may be a little complicated or counterintuitive. Since some operation may result in unexpected write to the tape, please refer to source code and 1) “SNIA-LTFS-Format-2.4.0-TechPosition” 2) “HP LTO Ultrium Tape Drives Technical Reference Manual, LTO6, Volume 3: Host Interface Guide” (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E38452_01/index.html) for technical details of this software. I will appreciate if you can contribute to the wiki.

[harrypm]

Glad to hear!

I am currently slowly working away on my own docs personally adopting LTO5, google workspace recently put a 5TB cap from unlimited so was forced into what was most cost effective, this also provided an great excuse to learn it for vhs-decodes media archival guide docs, the irony of tape to tape is not lost.

I was going over your videos on bilibili and noticed you tapped the power pins to standard ATX on a Fiber Channel autoloader unit, seeing some sort of guide or detailed photos on this would be invaluable as they are quite affordable here compared to there desktop counterparts but with little information about actually deploying them.

[zhaoyangwx]

For HP LTO5/6 FC full height or LTO5 FC half height, the power connector is standard ATX Big 4D
For HP LTO6 FC half height, the power connector uses MX3.0mm


https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.0.0.42dc2e8dm7azVy&id=608421257018&_u=il1jm659a35
The power connector of HP LTO6 HH FC I am using, for your reference

[harrypm]

I have been recently going over types of LTO readers and playing with Fibre Channel

Turns out internally MOLEX is just plane standard once removed, with ethernet for example being on a sub-board.

1U

1U SAS

2U Fibre Channel