From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 13:10:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F6B37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6138E43E6E for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id g9ULA57X068214; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:10:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:10:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Matthias Trevarthan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ch/pass/chio/CAM/Sony AIT tape autoloader Message-ID: <20021030211005.GC42580@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200210301539.38560.trevarthan@wingnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210301539.38560.trevarthan@wingnet.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 30), Matthias Trevarthan said: > I've got a Sony AIT autoloader, model TSL-SA300C. It's a four tape > changer. > > In my dmesg.boot, it show the changer as a 'pass2' device, but not a > 'ch' device. > > So, I guess my two questions are: > > How do I use this changer as a 'pass' device? (couldn't find any > programs that use the 'pass' device) Not very easily. "pass" devices are for sending raw SCSI commands to devices. > And why is it not listed as a 'ch' device? (chio looks like a good > program. I wish I could use it.) Add "device ch" to your kernel config and rebuild. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message