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@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ castor (Cern Advanced STORage system)
 %attr(0644,root,root) %doc /usr/share/man/man1/cta-tape-acs-queryvolume.1cta.gz
 %attr(0644,root,root) %doc /usr/share/man/man1/cta-tape-acs-mount.1cta.gz
 %attr(0644,root,root) %doc /usr/share/man/man1/cta-tape-acs-dismount.1cta.gz
+%attr(0644,root,root) %doc /usr/share/man/man1/cta-tape-acs-querydrive.1cta.gz
 
 %package -n cta-common
 Summary: CERN Tape Archive common items
diff --git a/mediachanger/acs/cta-tape-acs-querydrive.1cta b/mediachanger/acs/cta-tape-acs-querydrive.1cta
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+.\" The CERN Tape Archive (CTA) project
+.\" Copyright (C) 2015  CERN
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+.TH CTA-TAPE-ACS-QUERYDRIVE "1cta" "$Date: 2013/10/09 14:00:00 $" CTA "CTA"
+.SH NAME
+cta-tape-acs-querydrive \- queries a drive
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BI "cta-tape-acs-querydrive [options] VID"
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBWarning\fP, \fBcta-tape-acs-querydrive\fP is a developer tool and is
+therefore subject to change in and even removal from a future release of CTA.
+End users should not rely on this tool to operate their CTA installation.
+
+\fBcta-tape-acs-querydrive\fP quieries ACS for information about the drive
+with the specfied \fBVID\fP.
+
+Please note that this command-line tool communicates directly with the CSI of 
+the ACS system. This command-line tool does not communicate with any CTA
+daemons.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+\fB\-d, \-\-debug
+Turns on the printing of debug information.
+.TP
+\fB\-h, \-\-help
+Prints the usage message.
+.TP
+\fB\-q, \-\-query SECONDS
+Time wait between queries to ACLS for responses.
+\fBSECONDS\fP must be an integer value greater than 0.
+The default values of \fBSECONDS\fP is 610.
+.TP
+\fB\-t, \-\-timeout SECONDS
+Time to wait for the mount operation to conclude.  
+\fBSECONDS\fP must be an integer value greater than 0.
+The default value of \fBSECONDS\fP is 10.
+
+.SH "RETURN CODES"
+.TP
+\fB 0
+Ok.
+.TP
+\fB 1
+Command failed.
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+\fBCTA\fP Team