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CHIO(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual CHIO(1) NAME chio -- medium changer control utility SYNOPSIS chio [-f changer] command [-<flags>] arg1 arg2 [arg3 [...]] DESCRIPTION The chio utility is used to control the operation of medium changers, such as those found in tape and optical disk jukeboxes. The options are as follows: -f changer Use the device changer rather than the default device /dev/ch0. A medium changer apparatus is made up of elements. There are five ele- ment types: picker (medium transport), slot (storage), portal (import/ex- port), drive (data transfer), and voltag (select by volume identifier). The voltag pseudo-element type allows the selection of tapes by their volume tag (typically a barcode on the tape). In this command description, the shorthand ET will be used to represent an element type, and EU will be used to represent an element unit. For example, to represent the first robotic arm in the changer, the ET would be "picker" and the EU would be "0". SUPPORTED COMMANDS move _from ET_ _from EU_ _to ET_ _to EU_ [inv] Move the media unit from _from ET/EU_ to _to ET/EU_. If the op- tional modifier inv is specified, the media unit will be inverted before insertion. exchange _src ET_ _src EU_ _dst1 ET_ _dst1 EU_ [_dst2 ET_ _dst2 ET_] [inv1] [inv2] Perform a media unit exchange operation. The media unit in _src ET/EU_ is moved to _dst1 ET/EU_ and the media unit previously in _dst1 ET/EU_ is moved to _dst2 ET/EU_. In the case of a simple exchange, _dst2 ET/EU_ is omitted and the values _src ET/EU_ are used in their place. The optional modifiers inv1 and inv2 spec- ify whether the media units are to be inverted before insertion into _dst1 ET/EU_ and _dst2 ET/EU_ respectively. Note that not all medium changers support the exchange operation; the changer must have multiple free pickers or emulate multiple free pickers with transient storage. return _from ET_ _from EU_ Return the media unit to its source element. This command will query the status of the specified media unit, and will move it to the element specified in its source attribute. This is a conve- nient way to return media from a drive or portal to its previous element in the changer. position _to ET_ _to EU_ [inv] Position the picker in front of the element described by _to ET/EU_. If the optional modifier inv is specified, the media unit will be inverted before insertion. Note that not all changers behave as expected when issued this command. params Report the number of slots, drives, pickers, and portals in the changer, and which picker unit the changer is currently config- ured to use. getpicker Report which picker unit the changer is currently configured to use. setpicker _unit_ Configure the changer to use picker _unit_. ielem [_timeout_] Perform an INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS operation on the changer. The optional _timeout_ parameter may be given to specify a time- out in seconds for the operations. This may be used if the oper- ation takes unusually long because of buggy firmware or the like. voltag [-fca] _ET_ _EU_ [_label_] [_serial_] Change volume tag for an element in the media changer. This com- mand is only supported by few media changers. If it is not sup- ported by a device, using this command will usually result in an "Invalid Field in CDB" error message on the console. If the -c flag is specified, the volume tag of the specified ele- ment is cleared. If the -f flag is specified, the volume tag is superseded with the specified volume tag even if a volume tag is already defined for the element. It is an error to not specify the -f flag when trying to set a label for an element which al- ready has volume tag information defined. The command works with the primary volume tag or, if the -a flag is given, with the alternate volume tag. status [-vVsSbIa] [_type_] Report the status of all elements in the changer. If _type_ is specified, report the status of all elements of type _type_. -v Print the primary volume tag for each loaded medium, if any. The volume tag is printed as "<LABEL:SERIAL>". -V Print the alternate volume tag for each loaded medium, if any. -s Print the additional sense code and additional sense code quali- fier for each element. -S Print the element source address for each element. -b Print SCSI bus information for each element. Note that this in- formation is valid only for drives. -I Print the internal element addresses for each element. The in- ternal element address is not normally used with this driver. It is reported for diagnostic purposes only. -a Print all additional information (as in -vVsSba). The status bits are defined as follows: FULL Element contains a media unit. IMPEXP Media was deposited into element by an outside human operator. EXCEPT Element is in an abnormal state. ACCESS Media in this element is accessible by a picker. EXENAB Element supports passing media (exporting) to an outside human operator. INENAB Element supports receiving media (importing) from an outside hu- man operator. ENVIRONMENT CHANGER The default changer may be overridden by setting this environ- mental variable to the desired changer device. FILES /dev/ch0 default changer device EXAMPLES chio move slot 3 drive 0 Move the media in slot 3 (fourth slot) to drive 0 (first drive). chio move voltag VOLUME01 drive 0 Move the media with the barcode VOLUME01 to drive 0 (first drive). chio return drive 0 Remove the tape from drive 0 (first drive) and return it to its original location in the rack. chio setpicker 2 Configure the changer to use picker 2 (third picker) for opera- tions. SEE ALSO mt(1), mount(8) HISTORY A chio utility appeared in NetBSD 1.3. chio first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. AUTHORS The chio program and SCSI changer driver were written by Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@and.com> for And Communications, http://www.and.com/. Additional work by Hans Huebner <hans@artcom.de> and Steve Gunn <csg@waterspout.com>. FreeBSD 13.0 October 5, 2016 FreeBSD 13.0
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