LOADERINFO(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, loaderinfo(1) is from the General Commands Manual, and it is literally here to report SCSI tape device info 💖

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 determining 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 💅

• -f — 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 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, cat /proc/scsi/scsi 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) 😭.

🌈 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) 💜

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