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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Subject: Re: bin/21178: voltag selector, and unload support for chio(1)
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The following reply was made to PR bin/21178; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To: csg@waterspout.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, ajk@waterspout.com,
	ab@eas.purdue.edu, dpm@vutar.com
Subject: Re: bin/21178: voltag selector, and unload support for chio(1)
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 16:40:33 -0700 (PDT)

 Why doesn't somebody just merge the equivalent fixes from NetBSD's chio into
 FreeBSD? Or where they already done?
 
 
 > 
 > >Number:         21178
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       voltag selector, and unload support for chio(1).
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 10 16:30:01 PDT 2000
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     C. Stephen Gunn
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
 > >Organization:
 > Waterpout Communications, Inc.
 > >Environment:
 > 
 > Most versions of FreeBSD.
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > chio(1) provides no mechanism to select media by "voltag."
 > chio(1) provides no mechanism to return a media unit to its source.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > N/A - new feature request.
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 >  o A pseudo-element type selector "voltag" that can be used to select
 >    source elements:
 > 
 >       chio move voltag VOLUME-03 drive 0
 > 
 >       chio exchange voltag VOLUME-03 voltag VOLUME-04
 > 
 >  o A new sub-command "unload" that returns a media unit to the source
 >    element reported by 'chio status -a':
 > 
 >       chio unload drive 0
 >       chio unload voltag VOLUME-03
 > 
 > A patch relative to 4.1-STABLE (should work on 5.0-CURRENT as well) is
 > available at:
 > 
 >     http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~csg/FreeBSD/chio.patch
 > 
 > 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
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