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28.Dd $Mdocdate: October 6 2011 $
29.Dt SCSI 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm scsi
33.Nd SCSI system
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "scsibus at ..."
36.Pp
37.Cd "cd* at scsibus?"
38.Cd "ch* at scsibus?"
39.Cd "safte* at scsibus?"
40.Cd "sd* at scsibus?"
41.Cd "ses* at scsibus?"
42.Cd "st* at scsibus?"
43.Cd "uk* at scsibus?"
44.Pp
45.Cd "# multipath support"
46.Cd "emc* at scsibus?"
47.Cd "hds* at scsibus?"
48.Cd "rdac* at scsibus?"
49.Cd "sym* at scsibus?"
50.Cd "scsibus* at mpath?"
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Em SCSI
54system provides a uniform and modular system for the implementation
55of drivers to control various SCSI devices, and to utilize different
56SCSI host adapters through host adapter drivers.
57When the system probes the
58.Em SCSI
59buses, it attaches any devices it finds to the appropriate
60drivers.
61If no driver seems appropriate, then it attaches the device to the
62uk (unknown) driver so that user level SCSI ioctls may
63still be performed against the device.
64.Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION
65The option SCSIDEBUG enables the debug ioctl.
66.Pp
67All devices and the SCSI buses support boot time allocation so that
68an upper number of devices and controllers does not need to be configured;
69.Cd "sd* at scsibus?"
70will suffice for any number of disk drivers.
71.Pp
72The devices are either
73.Em wired
74so they appear as a particular device unit or
75.Em counted
76so that they appear as the next available unused unit.
77.Pp
78To configure a driver in the kernel without wiring down the device use a
79config line similar to
80.Cd "ch* at scsibus?"
81to include the changer driver.
82.Pp
83To wire down a unit use a config line similar to
84.Cd "ch1 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0"
85to assign changer 1 as the changer with SCSI ID 4,
86SCSI logical unit 0 on SCSI bus 0.
87Individual scsibuses can be wired down to specific controllers with
88a config line similar to
89.Cd "scsibus0 at ahc0"
90which assigns SCSI bus 0 to the first unit using the ahc driver.
91For controllers supporting more than one bus,
92the particular bus can be specified as in
93.Cd "scsibus3 at ahc1 bus 1"
94which assigns scsibus 1 to the second bus probed on the ahc1 device.
95.Pp
96When there is a mixture of wired down and counted devices then the
97counting begins with the first non-wired down unit for a particular
98type.
99That is, if a disk is wired down as
100.Cd "sd1 at scsibus?" ,
101then the first non-wired disk shall come on line as
102.Em sd2 .
103.Sh IOCTLS
104There are a number of ioctls that work on any
105.Em SCSI
106device.
107They are defined in
108.Aq Pa sys/scsiio.h
109and can be applied against any SCSI device that permits them.
110For the tape, it must be applied against the control
111device.
112See the manual page for each device type for more information about
113how generic SCSI ioctls may be applied to a specific device.
114.Bl -tag -width DIOCSDINFO____
115.It Dv SCIOCRESET*
116Reset a device.
117.It Dv SCIOCDEBUG
118Turn on debugging.
119All SCSI operations originating from this device's driver
120will be traced to the console, along with other information.
121Debugging is controlled by four bits, described in the header file.
122If no debugging is configured into the kernel, debugging will have
123no effect.
124.Em SCSI
125debugging is controlled by the configuration option
126.Em SCSIDEBUG .
127.It Dv SCIOCCOMMAND
128Take a SCSI command and data from a user process and apply them to the SCSI
129device.
130Return all status information and return data to the process.
131The ioctl will return a successful status even if the device rejected the
132command.
133As all status is returned to the user, it is up to the user
134process to examine this information to decide the success of the command.
135.It Dv SCIOCIDENTIFY
136Ask the driver what its bus, target and lun are.
137In addition, the device type, ATAPI or SCSI, is returned.
138.El
139.Sh ADAPTERS
140The system allows common device drivers to work through many different
141types of adapters.
142The adapters take requests from the upper layers and do all I/O between the
143.Em SCSI
144bus and the system.
145The maximum size of a transfer is governed by the adapter.
146Most adapters can transfer 64KB in a single operation, and many can transfer
147larger amounts.
148.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
149When the kernel is compiled with option SCSIDEBUG, the SCIOCDEBUG ioctl
150can be used to enable various amounts of tracing information on any
151specific device.
152Devices not being traced will not produce trace information.
153The four bits that make up the debug level each control certain types
154of debugging information.
155.Bl -tag -width "Bit 0"
156.It Dv Bit 0
157shows all SCSI bus operations including SCSI commands,
158error information and the first 48 bytes of any data transferred.
159.It Dv Bit 1
160shows routines called.
161.It Dv Bit 2
162shows information about what branches are taken and often some
163of the return values of functions.
164.It Dv Bit 3
165shows more detailed information including DMA scatter-gather logs.
166.El
167.Sh SEE ALSO
168.Xr cd 4 ,
169.Xr ch 4 ,
170.Xr emc 4 ,
171.Xr hds 4 ,
172.Xr intro 4 ,
173.Xr mpath 4 ,
174.Xr rdac 4 ,
175.Xr safte 4 ,
176.Xr sd 4 ,
177.Xr ses 4 ,
178.Xr st 4 ,
179.Xr sym 4 ,
180.Xr uk 4 ,
181.Xr scsi 8
182.Sh HISTORY
183This
184.Nm
185system appeared in MACH 2.5 at TRW.
186