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28.Dd March 28, 1997
29.Dt CH 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm ch
33.Nd scsi media-changer (juke box) driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "ch? at scsibus? target ? lun ?"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver provides support for SCSI juke boxes.
40It allows many slots of media to be multiplexed between a number of drives.
41.Pp
42A SCSI adapter and a logical scsibus must also be separately configured
43into the system before a SCSI changer can be configured.
44.Pp
45As the SCSI adapter is probed during boot, the SCSI bus is scanned for devices.
46Any devices found which answer as
47.Qq Changer
48type devices will be
49.Dq attached
50to the
51.Nm
52driver.
53The first device found will be attached as
54.Em ch0
55and the next
56.Em ch1 ,
57etc.
58It is also possible to specify what
59.Nm
60unit a device should come on-line as; refer to
61.Xr scsi 4
62for details on kernel configuration.
63.Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION
64In configuring, if an optional
65.Ar count
66is given in the specification, that number of SCSI media changers
67are configured.
68Most storage for them is allocated only when found
69so a large number of configured devices is cheap (once the first
70has included the driver).
71.Sh IOCTLS
72The following
73.Xr ioctl 2
74call applies to the changer.
75It is defined in the header file
76.Aq Pa sys/chio.h .
77.Bl -tag -width DIOCSDINFO
78.It Dv CHIOOP
79This appears to be a
80.Dq do-everything
81call.
82.El
83.Sh FILES
84.Bl -tag -width /dev/ch[0-9] -compact
85.It Pa /dev/ch[0-9]
86device entries
87.El
88.Sh SEE ALSO
89.Xr cd 4 ,
90.Xr scsi 4 ,
91.Xr sd 4 ,
92.Xr st 4
93.Sh DISCLAIMER
94These manpages were derived from the
95.Fx
96documentation of the generic SCSI drivers.
97Since naming and calling conventions may have diverged or suffered port
98specific changes, please review the appropriate header files and configuration
99file for your port.
100.Sh HISTORY
101The
102.Nm
103driver appeared in 386BSD 0.1.
104