NAME

       loaderinfo - report SCSI tape device info

SYNOPSIS

       loaderinfo -f <scsi-generic-device>

DESCRIPTION

       The  loaderinfo  command  reads various information from SCSI tape loaders. Its intended use is for high-
       level programs that are trying to decide what the capabilities of a device are.

       The following are printed:

       Element Address Assignment Page:
                 This tells how many elements are in the loader, and what their raw hardware addresses are.

       Transport Geometry Descriptor Page:
                 Will display whether media is invertible  or  not  (usable  with  some  optical  jukeboxes  for
                 detirmining whether to "flip" media after writing to the first side).

       Device Capabilities Page
                 Currently will only display whether we can transfer between slots (i.e.  whether 'mtx transfer'
                 works).

       Inquiry Page
                 Aside  from the normal inquiry info, will also print out whether we have a bar code reader (for
                 loaders that support the Exabyte extension for reporting presence of said reader).

OPTIONS

       The first argument, given following -f , is the SCSI generic device corresponding to  your  tape  loader.
       Consult  your  operating  system's documentation for more information (for example, under Linux these are
       generally start at /dev/sg0 under FreeBSD these start at /dev/pass0).

       Under FreeBSD, 'camcontrol devlist' will tell you what SCSI devices you have,  along  with  which  'pass'
       device controls them. Under Linux, the command lsscsi --generic will tell you what SCSI devices you have.
       Under  Solaris  8,  find  /devices  -name  '*changer*'  will  display  the device names for your attached
       changers. Make sure to configure your 'sgen' driver first.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       This program has only been tested on Linux with a limited number of loaders (Ecrix Autopack, Exabyte 220,
       IBM TS3100).

AVAILABILITY

       loaderinfo is currently being maintained by Robert Nelson <robertnelson@users.sourceforge.net> as part of
       the 'mtx' suite of programs. The 'mtx' home page is http://mtx.sourceforge.net and  the  actual  code  is
       currently available there and via SVN from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx.

SEE ALSO

       mt(1),tapeinfo(1),mtx(1)

                                                  LOADERINFO1.0                                    LOADERINFO(1)