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36 .Dd May 14, 1998
37 .Dt CHIO 1
38 .Os
39 .Sh NAME
40 .Nm chio
41 .Nd medium changer control utility
42 .Sh SYNOPSIS
43 .Nm
44 .Op Fl f Ar changer
45 .Ar command
46 .Op Fl <flags>
47 .Ar arg1
48 .Ar arg2
49 .Op Ar arg3 Op ...
50 .Sh DESCRIPTION
51 The
52 .Nm
53 utility is used to control the operation of medium changers, such as those
54 found in tape and optical disk jukeboxes.
55 .Pp
56 The options are as follows:
57 .Bl -tag -width indent
58 .It Fl f Ar changer
59 Use the device
60 .Ar changer
61 rather than the default device
62 .Pa /dev/ch0 .
63 .El
64 .Pp
65 The default changer may be overridden by setting the environment variable
66 .Ev CHANGER
67 to the desired changer device.
68 .Pp
69 A medium changer apparatus is made up of
70 .Em elements .
71 There are five element types:
72 .Em picker
73 (medium transport),
74 .Em slot
75 (storage),
76 .Em portal
77 (import/export),
78 .Em drive
79 (data transfer), and
80 .Em voltag
81 (select by volume identifier). The
82 .Em voltag
83 pseudo-element type allows the selection of tapes by their volume tag
84 (typically a barcode on the tape).
85 .Pp
86 In this command description, the shorthand
87 .Em ET
88 will be used to represent an element type, and
89 .Em EU
90 will be used to represent an element unit.
91 For example, to represent the first robotic arm in the changer, the
92 .Em ET
93 would be
94 .Dq picker
95 and the
96 .Em EU
97 would be
98 .Dq 0 .
99 .Sh SUPPORTED COMMANDS
100 .Bl -tag -width indent
101 .It Ic move Xo
102 .Ar <from ET> <from EU> <to ET> <to EU>
103 .Op Cm inv
104 .Xc
105 Move the media unit from
106 .Ar <from ET/EU>
107 to
108 .Ar <to ET/EU> .
109 If the optional modifier
110 .Cm inv
111 is specified, the media unit will be inverted before insertion.
112 .It Ic exchange Xo
113 .Ar <src ET> <src EU> <dst1 ET> <dst1 EU>
114 .Op Ar <dst2 ET> <dst2 ET>
115 .Op Cm inv1
116 .Op Cm inv2
117 .Xc
118 Perform a media unit exchange operation. The media unit in
119 .Ar <src ET/EU>
120 is moved to
121 .Ar <dst1 ET/EU>
122 and the media unit previously in
123 .Ar <dst1 ET/EU>
124 is moved to
125 .Ar <dst2 ET/EU> .
126 In the case of a simple exchange,
127 .Ar <dst2 ET/EU>
128 is omitted and the values
129 .Ar <src ET/EU>
130 are used in their place.
131 The optional modifiers
132 .Cm inv1
133 and
134 .Cm inv2
135 specify whether the media units are to be inverted before insertion into
136 .Ar <dst1 ET/EU>
137 and
138 .Ar <dst2 ET/EU>
139 respectively.
140 .Pp
141 Note that not all medium changers support the
142 .Ic exchange
143 operation; the changer must have multiple free pickers or emulate
144 multiple free pickers with transient storage.
145 .It Ic return Xo
146 .Ar <from ET> <from EU>
147 .Xc
148 Return the media unit to its source element.
149 This command will query the status of the specified media unit, and
150 will move it to the element specified in its source attribute.
151 This is a convenient way to return media from a drive or portal
152 to its previous element in the changer.
153 .Pp
154 .It Ic position Xo
155 .Ar <to ET> <to EU>
156 .Op Cm inv
157 .Xc
158 Position the picker in front of the element described by
159 .Ar <to ET/EU> .
160 If the optional modifier
161 .Cm inv
162 is specified, the media unit will be inverted before insertion.
163 .Pp
164 Note that not all changers behave as expected when issued this command.
165 .It Ic params
166 Report the number of slots, drives, pickers, and portals in the changer,
167 and which picker unit the changer is currently configured to use.
168 .It Ic getpicker
169 Report which picker unit the changer is currently configured to use.
170 .It Ic setpicker Xo
171 .Ar <unit>
172 .Xc
173 Configure the changer to use picker
174 .Ar <unit> .
175 .Pp
176 .It Ic ielem Xo
177 .Op Ar <timeout>
178 .Xc
179 Perform an
180 .Em INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS
181 operation on the changer. The optional
182 .Ar <timeout>
183 parameter may be given to specify a timeout in seconds for the
184 operations. This may be used if the operation takes unusually long
185 because of buggy firmware or the like.
186 .It Ic voltag Xo
187 .Op Fl fca
188 .Ar <ET>
189 .Ar <EU>
190 .Op Ar <label>
191 .Op Ar <serial>
192 .Xc
193 Change volume tag for an element in the media changer. This command
194 is only supported by few media changers. If it is not supported by a
195 device, using this command will usually result in an
196 .Dq Invalid Field in CDB
197 error message on the console.
198 .Pp
199 If the
200 .Fl c
201 flag is specified, the volume tag of the specified element is
202 cleared. If the
203 .Fl f
204 flag is specified, the volume tag is superseded with the specified
205 volume tag even if a volume tag is already defined for the element.
206 It is an error to not specify the
207 .Fl f
208 flag when trying to set a label for an element which already has
209 volume tag information defined.
210 .Pp
211 The command works with the primary volume tag or, if the
212 .Fl a
213 flag is given, with the alternate volume tag.
214 .It Ic status Xo
215 .Op Fl vVsSbIa
216 .Op Ar <type>
217 .Xc
218 Report the status of all elements in the changer. If
219 .Ar <type>
220 is specified, report the status of all elements of type
221 .Ar <type> .
222 .It Fl v
223 Print the primary volume tag for each loaded medium, if any. The volume
224 tag is printed as
225 .Dq <LABEL:SERIAL> .
226 .It Fl V
227 Print the alternate volume tag for each loaded medium, if any.
228 .It Fl s
229 Print the additional sense code and additional sense code qualifier for
230 each element.
231 .It Fl S
232 Print the element source address for each element.
233 .It Fl b
234 Print SCSI bus information for each element. Note that this information
235 is valid only for drives.
236 .It Fl I
237 Print the internal element addresses for each element. The internal
238 element address is not normally used with this driver. It is reported
239 for diagnostic purposes only.
240 .It Fl a
241 Print all additional information (as in
242 .Fl vVsSba ) .
243 .El
244 .Pp
245 The status bits are defined as follows:
246 .Bl -tag -width indent
247 .It FULL
248 Element contains a media unit.
249 .It IMPEXP
250 Media was deposited into element by an outside human operator.
251 .It EXCEPT
252 Element is in an abnormal state.
253 .It ACCESS
254 Media in this element is accessible by a picker.
255 .It EXENAB
256 Element supports passing media (exporting) to an outside human operator.
257 .It INENAB
258 Element supports receiving media (importing) from an outside human operator.
259 .El
260 .Sh FILES
261 .Bl -tag -width /dev/ch0 -compact
262 .It Pa /dev/ch0
263 default changer device
264 .El
265 .Sh EXAMPLES
266 .Bl -tag -width indent
267 .It Li chio move slot 3 drive 0
268 Move the media in slot 3 (fourth slot) to drive 0 (first drive).
269 .It Li chio move voltag VOLUME01 drive 0
270 Move the media with the barcode VOLUME01 to drive 0 (first drive).
271 .It Li chio return drive 0
272 Remove the tape from drive 0 (first drive) and return it to its original
273 location in the rack.
274 .It Li chio setpicker 2
275 Configure the changer to use picker 2 (third picker) for operations.
276 .El
277 .Sh SEE ALSO
278 .Xr mt 1 ,
279 .Xr mount 8
280 .Sh AUTHORS
281 .An -nosplit
282 The
283 .Nm
284 program and SCSI changer driver were written by
285 .An Jason R. Thorpe Aq thorpej@and.com
286 for And Communications,
287 .Pa http://www.and.com/ .
288 .Pp
289 Additional work by
290 .An Hans Huebner
291 .Aq hans@artcom.de
292 and
293 .An Steve Gunn
294 .Aq csg@waterspout.com .