o robot_name - The name of the robot device to be opened. On Digital UNIX, if the leading character of the name is not a slash (/), /dev/ will be prepended to the name. o robot_info - This is the address of a robot_info_t structure initialized using mrd_startup(3mrd) or mrd_show(3mrd). This data structure contains the element starting address and counts for each type of element, which are needed to map an absolute element to the correct zero relative address and type. o element_type - The type of robot element on which the operation takes place. If an element type of zero (0) is used, all elements will be searched starting at element 0 of each type and searching all the elements of that type on the robot. The order of this search is Slot, Drive, Transport and finally Ports. o element_name - A string used to specify the name of the first element about which to obtain information. While SCSI devices use integer numbers for element addresses, DSA robots use character strings. This allows the same interface to be used for both types, where supported. o element_count - A volume tag search in a large library can take a long time. Some applications (a graphic user interface for example) may want to break up a large search into smaller, quicker sub-searches. When a specific element_ type is specified only a range specified by the element_name and element_count will be searched. This argument is ignored when the element_type is zero (0). o element_info - The array of element_info_t structures that is filled in with information on the type and number of elements requested with element_type and element_count. The information includes volume tag (if available), state, port type (if PORT information is requested), status, and when available a copy of the Read Element Status data for the element. o log_info - This is a character array that should be at least MRD_MAX_LOG_STRING in length. If this function fails as the result of a SCSI error, this will be filled with the formatted request sense data. If this function fails as the result of an operating system error, the operating system message particular to the error will be copied into the array.