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authorKai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>2008-02-24 22:29:12 +0200
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2008-04-07 12:15:40 -0500
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[SCSI] st: show options currently set in sysfs
Show the current binary tape driver and mode options is sysfs. A file (options) is created in each directory in /sys/class/scsi_tape. The files contain masks showing the options. The mask bit definitions are the same as used when setting the options using the MTSETDRVBUFFER function in the MTIOCTOP ioctl (defined in include/linux/mtio.h). For example: > cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/options 0x00000d07 [jejb: updated doc with correction from Randy Dunlap] Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This file contains brief information about the SCSI tape driver.
The driver is currently maintained by Kai Mäkisara (email
Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi)
-Last modified: Thu Feb 21 21:54:16 2008 by kai.makisara
+Last modified: Sun Feb 24 21:59:07 2008 by kai.makisara
BASICS
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ the defaults set by the user. The value -1 means the default is not set. The
file 'dev' contains the device numbers corresponding to this device. The links
'device' and 'driver' point to the SCSI device and driver entries.
+Each directory also contains the entry 'options' which shows the currently
+enabled driver and mode options. The value in the file is a bit mask where the
+bit definitions are the same as those used with MTSETDRVBUFFER in setting the
+options.
+
A link named 'tape' is made from the SCSI device directory to the class
directory corresponding to the mode 0 auto-rewind device (e.g., st0).