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.\" tapeinfo.1 Document copyright 2000 Eric Lee Green
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.\" Program Copyright 2000 Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org>
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.\" Copyright 2007-2008 by Robert Nelson <robertn@the-nelsons.org>
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.\"
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.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
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.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free
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.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139,
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.\" USA.
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.\"
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.TH LOADERINFO 1 LOADERINFO1.0
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.SH NAME
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loaderinfo \- report SCSI tape device info
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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loaderinfo -f <scsi-generic-device>
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B loaderinfo
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command reads various information from SCSI tape loaders. Its intended
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use is for high-level programs that are trying to decide what the
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capabilities of a device are.
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.P
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The following are printed:
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.TP 10
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.B Element Address Assignment Page:
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This tells how many elements are in the loader, and what their raw
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hardware addresses are.
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.TP 10
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.B Transport Geometry Descriptor Page:
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Will display whether media is invertible or not (usable with some
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optical jukeboxes for detirmining whether to "flip" media after writing
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to the first side).
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.TP 10
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.B Device Capabilities Page
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Currently will only display whether we can transfer between slots (i.e.
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whether 'mtx transfer' works).
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.TP 10
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.B Inquiry Page
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Aside from the normal inquiry info, will also print out whether we have
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a bar code reader (for loaders that support the Exabyte extension for
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reporting presense of said reader).
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.SH OPTIONS
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The first argument, given following
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.B -f
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, is the SCSI generic device corresponding to your tape loader.
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Consult your operating system's documentation for more information (for
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example, under Linux these are generally start at /dev/sg0
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under FreeBSD these start at /dev/pass0).
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.P
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Under FreeBSD, 'camcontrol devlist' will tell you what SCSI devices you
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have, along with which 'pass' device controls them. Under Linux,
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"cat /proc/scsi/scsi" will tell you what SCSI devices you have. Under
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Solaris 8,
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.B find /devices -name '*changer*'
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will display the device names for your attached changers. Make sure
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to configure your 'sgen' driver first.
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.SH BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
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.P
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This program has only been tested on Linux with a limited number of
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loaders (Ecrix Autopack, Exabyte 220).
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.P
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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.B loaderinfo
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is currently being maintained by Robert Nelson <robertnelson@users.sourceforge.net>
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as part of the 'mtx' suite of programs. The 'mtx' home page is
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http://mtx.sourceforge.net and the actual code is currently available there and via
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SVN from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR mt (1), tapeinfo (1), mtx (1)
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