Subject: Re: off-topic: Kodak 560 ADL changer
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/11/1997 08:37:04
Oh, really? Sorry, Jason. I didn't know that. Then why's chio.c in
dev/scsi/scsipi? :-)

If that's the case, why don't you then also use the SJI ioctl set,
which Legato and about 6 other companies defined several years back
as the 'standard' ioctls for changer devices (irrespective of the
control path)?

Sorry for misspeaking..

>On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:48:41 -0800 
> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com> wrote:
>
> > >is chio only for in-scsi changers??
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > >rs-232 pinout and/or the protocol used??
>
>Not exactly; chio(1) uses an ioctl interface, that is not tied to
>SCSI (even though it uses similar terminology to the SCSI changer
>specification).  I envisioned it to be used w/ serial interface
>changers, as well.
>
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