Tape::Drive is now a container, taking care of allocating the proper type of drive depending on the device information.
Tape::DriveGeneric is the old parent class. It is now a pure virtual for lack of the non-common functions.

The tests (unit and system) have been adapated.

The system test environement now has a vide sampler of drive types (LTO from IBM and HP, 3592 from IBM in 3 flavors and T10K A, B and C from Oracle). The complete list of flavors is in usr/vtltape.c in mhvtl sources.

from SCSI level.

Added creation of 2 blocks at the begining of the tape to allow the usage of blank tapes in the system test.
Renamed the system test as it is writing to tapes.

Added a sleep because shutting down mhvtl is not instantaneous.

Simplified code with regular expression by declaring a variable later.

removed tapeGenericDeviceFile

added untitests for them.
added prelabeled picture in the doc.
cosmetic changes and fix for syntax errors.

moved all VSN1::fileds to private to not allow any direct modifications.
implemented Tape::AULFile::VOL1::verify function.
added unitest for Tape::AULFile::VOL1
added some helper functions to deal with space padded char arrays in the
 tape headers (cmpString, toString, spaceStruct).

original version at
 https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/FIOgroup/TapeLabelOptions

Added some fixes for DeviceVector and getTapeInfo to work on SLC6 and SLC5.
Added SLC6 unit test for getTapeAlerts.

Removed two headers prelabel example due to 

http://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/?102340

the doc.

Added tables with decriptions of the AUL related headers HDR1, HDR2, UHL1,
 EOF1, EOF2, UTL1.
Added examples with hexdumps for the headers on the mhvtl tapes.
Added exmaples for empty tapes with PRELABEL HDR1 and PRELABEL HDR1&HDR2

added \usepackage{float} to make tables less floating.

Removed the author list from every file and added the complete list into a single file.

In the documentation I changed the name of 2 interface functions to better describe their behaviour:

spaceFilesBackwards -> spaceFileMarksBackwards
spaceFilesForward -> spaceFileMarksForward

1) Added the test for the wrapper functions of the ST driver. This test aims at checking the correctness of the behaviour of the interface functions.
2) Changed the name of 2 interface functions to better describe their behaviour:

spaceFilesBackwards -> spaceFileMarksBackwards
spaceFilesForward -> spaceFileMarksForward

added simple environment for SLC6 based on the installation "Scientific Linux
 CERN SLC release 6.4 (Carbon)" with kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.

lsscsi -g for the prototype is following:
[0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      TOSHIBA THNSNF12 FSLA  /dev/sda   /dev/sg0
[6:0:0:0]    mediumx STK      VL52STK1         0104  /dev/sch0  /dev/sg3
[6:0:1:0]    tape    STK      T10000B          0104  /dev/st0   /dev/sg1
[6:0:2:0]    tape    STK      T10000B          0104  /dev/st1   /dev/sg2

Added a helper function to set SCSI 16 bits values.
Added test for Tape::Drive::getTapeAlerts
Fixed Tape::Drive::getTapeAlerts
Removed the -O2 from the compilation options: debugging was sometimes confusing, and compilation is now faster.
Also removed optimisation from rpm build.

added simple calls for getDeviceInfo, positionToLogicalObject, 
getPositionInfo, setDensityAndCompression, getCompression, 
clearCompressionStats.

For full testing not a blank tape should be mounted in the drive 
before executing the TapeDriveInfo programm.

Updated documentation which was inaccurate about padding of the strings in SCSI structures. Added comments around the correponding helper function.

Added wrapper functions for Drive operations using the ST driver (no test just yet, will wait for the system test).

As a consequence, removed the templatisation of Tape::Drive* and SCSI::DeviceVector
Moved much of their functions from .hh to .cc (thanks to end of templatisation).
Removed copilation options from many .cc after moving Tape::System::mockWrapper::mockWrapper to a .cc.

 Tape::System::stDeviceFile::ioctl, and cut the function into subfunctions

Tape::System::stDeviceFile::ioctl was split by small subfunctions
more comments were added for hex arrays.

Finished the fisrt version of the Tape::Drive interface.

child function getSerialNumber was added.