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27.Dd August 27, 1993
28.Dt SD 4
29.Os FreeBSD
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm scsi
32.Nd scsi system
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm controller scbus0
35.Nm controller scbus1 at ahc0
36.Nm controller scbus3 at ahc1 bus 0
37.Nm controller scbus2 at ahc1 bus 1
38.Nm device cd0
39.Nm device ch0
40.Nm disk sd0
41.Nm tape st0
42.Nm device ch1 at scbus0 target 4 unit 0
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Em scsi
46system provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation
47of drivers to control various scsi devices, and to utilize different
48scsi host adapters through host adapter drivers. When the system probes the
49.Em SCSI
50busses, it attaches any devices it finds to the appropriate
51drivers. If no driver seems appropriate, then it attaches the device to the
52uk (unknown) driver so that user level scsi ioctls may
53still be performed against the device.
54.Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION
55The option SCSIDEBUG enables the debug ioctl.
56.Pp
57All devices and the SCSI busses support boot time allocation so that
58an upper number of devices and controllers does not need to be configured;
59.Em "device sd0"
60will suffice for any number of disk drivers.
61.Pp
62The devices are either
63.Em wired
64so they appear as a particular device unit or
65.Em counted
66so that they appear as the next available unused unit.
67.Pp
68To configure a driver in the kernel without wiring down the device use a
69config line similar to
70.Em "device ch0"
71to include the changer driver.
72.Pp
73To wire down a unit use a config line similar to
74.Em "device ch1 at scbus0 target 4 unit 0"
75to assign changer 1 as the changer with SCSI ID 4,
76SCSI logical unit 0 on SCSI bus 0.
77Individual scbuses can be wired down to specific controllers with
78a config line similar to
79.Em "controller scbus0 at ahc0"
80which assigns scsi bus 0 to the first unit using the ahc driver.
81For controllers supporting more than one bus,
82the particular bus can be specified as in
83.Em "controller scbus3 at ahc1 bus 1"
84which assigns scbus 1 to the second bus probed on the ahc1 device.
85.Pp
86When you have a mixture of wired down and counted devices then the
87counting begins with the first non-wired down unit for a particular
88type.  That is, if you have a disk wired down as
89.Em "disk sd1" ,
90then the first non-wired disk shall come on line as
91.Em sd2 .
92.Sh IOCTLS
93There are a number of ioctls that work on any
94.Em SCSI
95device. They are defined in
96.Em sys/scsiio.h
97and can be applied against any scsi device that permits them.
98For the tape, it must be applied against the control
99device. See the manual page for each device type for more information about
100how generic scsi ioctls may be applied to a specific device.
101.Bl -tag -width DIOCSDINFO____
102.It Dv SCIOCRESET*
103reset a device.
104.It Dv SCIOCDEBUG
105Turn on debugging.. All scsi operations originating from this device's driver
106will be traced to the console, along with other information. Debugging is
107controlled by four bits, described in the header file. If no debugging is
108configured into the kernel, debugging will have no effect.
109.Em SCSI
110debugging is controlled by the configuration option
111.Em SCSIDEBUG.
112.It Dv SCIOCCOMMAND
113Take a scsi command and data from a user process and apply them to the scsi
114device. Return all status information and return data to the process. The
115ioctl will return a successful status even if the device rejected the
116command. As all status is returned to the user, it is up to the user
117process to examine this information to decide the success of the command.
118.It Dv SCIOCREPROBE
119Ask the system to probe the scsi busses for any new devices. If it finds
120any, they will be attached to the appropriate drivers. The search can be
121narrowed to a specific bus, target or lun. The new device may or may not
122be related to the device on which the ioctl was performed.
123.It Dv SCIOCIDENTIFY
124Ask the driver what it's bus, target and lun are.
125.It Dv SCIOCDECONFIG
126Ask the device to disappear. This may not happen if the device is in use.
127.El
128.Sh NOTES
129the generic scsi part of the system is still being mapped out.
130Watch this space for changes.
131.Pp
132 A device by the name of su (scsi_user)
133(e.g  su0-0-0) will map bus, target and lun to  minor numbers. I have not
134yet decided yet whether this device will be able to open a device that is
135already controlled by an explicit driver.
136.Sh ADAPTERS
137The system allows common device drivers to work through many different
138types of adapters. The adapters take requests from the upper layers and do
139all IO between the
140.Em SCSI
141bus and the system. The maximum size of a transfer is governed by the
142adapter. Most adapters can transfer 64KB in a single operation, however
143many can transfer larger amounts.
144.Sh TARGET MODE
145Some adapters support
146.Em Target mode
147in which the system is capable of operating as a device, responding to
148operations initiated by another system. Target mode will be supported for
149some adapters, but is not yet complete for this version of the scsi system.
150.Sh FILES
151see other scsi device entries.
152.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
153When the kernel is compiled with option SCSIDEBUG, the SCIOCDEBUG ioctl
154can be used to enable various amounts of tracing information on any
155specific device. Devices not being traced will not produce trace information.
156The four bits that make up the debug level, each control certain types
157of debugging information.
158.Bl -tag -width THIS_WIDE_PLEASE
159.It Dv Bit 0
160Bit 0  shows all scsi bus operations including scsi commands,
161error information and the first 48 bytes of any data transferred.
162.It Dv Bit 1
163Bit 1 shows routines called.
164.It Dv Bit 2
165Bit 2 shows information about what branches are taken and often some
166of the return values of functions.
167.It Dv Bit 3
168Bit 3 shows more detailed information including DMA scatter-gather logs.
169.El
170.Sh SEE ALSO
171.Xr ch 4 ,
172.Xr cd 4 ,
173.Xr sd 4 ,
174.Xr st 4 ,
175.Xr uk 4 ,
176.Xr su 4 ,
177.Xr aha 4 ,
178.Xr ahb 4 ,
179.Xr bt 4 ,
180.Xr uha 4
181.Sh HISTORY
182This
183.Nm
184system appeared in MACH 2.5 at TRW.
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