ielem

The ielem program sends an INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS command to the named SCSI device.

The following example describes the format and options available for the ielem program:

ielem -a b.t.l [-r element-address.number-of-elements] 

• You must use the required -a b.t.l argument to select a specific ordinal SCSI address, where b is the logical SCSI bus, t is the SCSI target, and l is the SCSI lun on that target.

• If your autochanger supports the Vendor Unique EXABYTE autochanger INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS command, use the -r option to initialize the element status for a range of elements. Specify the starting element's decimal address and the number of elements whose status you want to read.