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<book id="index">
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<bookinfo>
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<title>The Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Douglas</firstname>
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<surname>Gilbert</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address>
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<email>dgilbert at interlog dot com</email>
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</address>
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</affiliation>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate>2003-08-24</pubdate>
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<revhistory id="revhistory">
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<revision>
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<revnumber>2.1</revnumber>
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<date>2004-08-24</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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scsihosts change -> run mkinitrd, lk 2.4.21,22
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
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<date>2003-05-04</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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lk2.4.20, linuxdoc->tldp, sATA and SAS, last sector on raw devs,
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blockdev
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.9</revnumber>
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<date>2002-11-20</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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convert to xml, lk2.4.19, spelling
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.8</revnumber>
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<date>2002-05-05</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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scsihosts comma delimiter, grub+lilo
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<!-- Additional (*earlier*) revision histories go here -->
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.7</revnumber>
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<date>2002-04-27</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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mkinitrd, scsi_debug, 2.4.18, more ATAPI
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.6</revnumber>
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<date>2002-01-26</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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ATAPI cdrom selection
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.5</revnumber>
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<date>2001-12-21</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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16 byte SCSI commands, SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
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<date>2001-08-26</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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spelling, dd_rescue, mkinitrd example, lk 2.4 changes, 1394.
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
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<date>2001-08-26</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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ATAPI CDROM section, alter title, U320, iSCSI.
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
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<date>2001-03-25</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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Information about scu, dt, "Alt" sequences, more notes.
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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<revision>
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<revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
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<date>2001-01-22</date>
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<authorinitials>dpg</authorinitials>
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<revremark>
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Add osst description, _EXTRA_DEVS limitations.
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</revremark>
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</revision>
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</revhistory>
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<copyright>
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<year>2001</year>
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<year>2002</year>
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<year>2003</year>
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<year>2004</year>
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<holder>Douglas Gilbert</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with
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no Back-Cover Texts.
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</para>
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<para>
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For an online copy of the license see
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<ulink url="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html">
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<literal>www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html</literal></ulink>.
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</para>
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</legalnotice>
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<abstract>
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<para>
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This document describes the SCSI subsystem as the Linux kernel
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enters the 2.4 production series.
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An external view of the SCSI subsystem is the main theme.
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Material is included to help the system administration of the
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Linux SCSI subsystem. There are also brief descriptions of
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ioctl()s and interfaces that may be relevant to those writing
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applications that use this subsystem.
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</para>
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</abstract>
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</bookinfo>
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<toc></toc>
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<chapter id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>
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This document describes the SCSI subsystem as the Linux kernel
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enters the 2.4 production series.
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</para>
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<para>
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An external view of the SCSI subsystem is the main theme.
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Material is included to help the system administration of the Linux SCSI
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subsystem. There are also brief descriptions of ioctl()s and interfaces
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that may be relevant to those writing applications that use this subsystem.
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However internal data structures and design issues are not addressed
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[see reference <link linkend="W2">W2</link>]. To unclutter the presentation,
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compile options and system calls (including ioctl()s) have been placed in
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<xref linkend="compileopt"/>. Although not strictly part of the SCSI
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subsystem, there is also a description of raw devices in
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<xref linkend="rawdev"/>.
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</para>
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<para>
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For those who have no interest in the SCSI subsystem and just want to get
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their ATAPI cd writer going, see <xref linkend="sratapi"/>.
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It may also be useful to browse <xref linkend="arch"/>.
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</para>
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<para>
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This document follows on from one written five years ago by Drew
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Eckhardt called the SCSI-HOWTO [see reference <link linkend="W7">W7</link>].
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That document described the SCSI subsystem in Linux kernel 1.2 and 1.3
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series. It is still available from the Linux Documentation Project
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[LDP, see reference <link linkend="W8">W8</link>] in its "unmaintained"
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section. Both documents have roughly similar structures although Drew's
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document has a lot of information on the adapter drivers.
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</para>
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<para>
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This document can be found in electronic form at
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<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO">
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<literal>www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO</literal></ulink>.
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The home site and perhaps the most up to date version of this
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document can be found at
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<ulink url="http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO">
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<literal>www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO</literal></ulink> (this is
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the multi-page html version).
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At that location this document is rendered in txt, pdf, ps, a single
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(long) page of html as well as multi-page html. For example, a pdf
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version is at <ulink url="http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO.pdf">
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<literal>www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO.pdf</literal></ulink>).
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</para>
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<para>
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This document was last altered on 24th August 2004.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="arch">
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<title>Architectural Overview</title>
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<para>
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The SCSI subsystem has a 3 level architecture with the "upper" level
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being closest to the user/kernel interface while the "lower" level
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is closest to the hardware. The upper level drivers are commonly known
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by a terse two letter abbreviation (e.g. "sd" for SCSI disk driver).
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The names of the corresponding module drivers which, for historical
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reasons, sometimes differ from the built in driver names are shown in
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braces in the following diagram.
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</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="scsi-arch.eps" format="EPS"/>
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</imageobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="scsi-arch.jpg" format="JPG"/>
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</imageobject>
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<caption><para>
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The 3 level driver architecture of the SCSI subsystem.
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</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>
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The upper level supports the user-kernel interface. In the case of sd and sr
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this is a block device interface while for st and sg this is a character
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device interface. Any operation using the SCSI subsystem (e.g. reading a
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sector from a disk) involves one driver at each of the 3 levels (e.g. sd,
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SCSI mid level and aic7xxx drivers).
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</para>
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<para>
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As can be seen from the diagram, the SCSI mid level is common to all
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operations. The SCSI mid level defines internal interfaces and provides
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common services to the upper and lower level drivers. Ioctls provided by
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the mid level are available to the file descriptors belonging to any of
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the 4 upper level drivers.
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</para>
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<para>
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The most common operation on a block device is to "mount" a
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file system. For a sd device typically a partition is mounted
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(e.g. <command>mount -t ext2 /dev/sda6 /home</command>). For a
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sr device usually the whole device is mounted (e.g. <command>
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mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom</command>). The <command>dd
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</command> command can be used to read or write from block devices.
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In this case the block size argument ("bs") needs to be set to
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the block size of the device (e.g. 512 bytes for most disks)
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or an integral multiple of that device block size (e.g. 8192 bytes).
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A recent addition to the block subsystem allows a device (or partition)
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to be mounted more than once, at different mount points.
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</para>
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<para>
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Sd is a member of the generic disk family, as is the hd device from the
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IDE subsystem. Apart from mounting sd devices, the <command>fdisk
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</command> command is available to view or modify a disk's
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partition table. Although the <command>hdparm</command> command is
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primarily intended for ATA disks (also known as IDE or EIDE disks), some
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options work on SCSI disks.
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</para>
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<para>
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Sr is a member of the CD-ROM subsystem. Apart from mounting file
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systems (e.g. iso9660), audio CDs can also be read. The latter
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action does <emphasis>not</emphasis> involve mounting a file
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system but typically by invoking some ioctls. General
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purpose Linux commands such as <command>dd</command> cannot be
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used on audio CDs.
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</para>
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<para>
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St is a char device for reading and writing tapes. Typically the
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<command>mt</command> command is used to perform data transfers and
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other control functions.
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</para>
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<para>
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Sg is a SCSI command pass through device that uses a char device
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interface. General purpose Linux commands should <emphasis>not
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</emphasis> be used on sg devices. Applications such
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as SANE (for scanners), <command>cdrecord</command> and
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<command>cdrdao</command> (for cd writers) and
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<command>cdparanoia</command> (for reading audio CDs digitally) use sg.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="names">
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<title>Names and Addresses</title>
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<para>
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This section covers the various naming schemes that exist in Linux
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and the SCSI worlds and how they interact.
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</para>
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<sect1 id="scsiaddr">
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<title>SCSI Addressing</title>
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<para>
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Linux has a four level hierarchical addressing scheme for SCSI devices:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>SCSI adapter number [host]</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>channel number [bus]</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>id number [target]</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>lun [lun]</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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"Lun" is the common SCSI abbreviation of Logical Unit Number. The terms
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in brackets are the name conventions used by device pseudo file system
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(devfs). "Bus" is used in preference to "channel" in the description below.
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</para>
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<para>
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The SCSI adapter number is typically an arbitrary numbering of the adapter
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cards on the internal IO buses (e.g. PCI, PCMCIA, ISA etc) of the computer.
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Such adapters are sometimes termed as HBAs (host bus adapters).
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SCSI adapter numbers are issued by the kernel in ascending order starting
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with 0.
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</para>
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<para>
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Each HBA may control one or more SCSI buses. The various types of SCSI
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buses are listed in <xref linkend="scsibus"/>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Each SCSI bus can have multiple SCSI devices connected to it. In SCSI
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parlance the HBA is called the "initiator" and takes up one SCSI id
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number (typically 7). The initiator
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<footnote><para>
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SCSI standards allow for multiple initiators to be present on a single bus.
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This is not well supported in Linux although there are patches around
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that improve this situation.
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</para></footnote>
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talks to targets which are commonly
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known as SCSI devices (e.g. disks). On SCSI parallel buses the number
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of ids is related to the width. 8 bit buses (sometimes called "narrow")
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can have 8 SCSI ids of which 1 is taken by the HBA leaving 7 for SCSI
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devices. Wide SCSI buses are 16 bits wide and can have a maximum of 15
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SCSI devices (targets) attached. The SCSI 3 draft standard allows a
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large number of ids to be present on a SCSI bus.
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</para>
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<para>
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Each SCSI device can contain multiple Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs). These
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are typically used by sophisticated tape and cdrom units that support
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multiple media.
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</para>
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<para>
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So Linux's flavour of SCSI addressing is a four level hierarchy:
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<programlisting>
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<scsi(_adapter_number), channel, id, lun>
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</programlisting>
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Using the naming conventions of devfs this becomes:
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<programlisting>
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<host, bus, target, lun>
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="dnames">
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<title>Device Names</title>
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<para>
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A device name can be thought of as a gateway to a kernel driver that
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controls a device rather than the device itself. Hence there can be
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multiple device names some of which may offer slightly different
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characteristics, all mapping to the same actual device.
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</para>
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<para>
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The device names of the various SCSI devices are found within the
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<filename>/dev</filename> directory. Traditionally in Linux, SCSI
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devices have been identified by their major and minor device number
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rather than their SCSI bus addresses (e.g. SCSI target id and LUN).
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The device pseudo file system (devfs) moves away from the major and
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minor device number scheme and for the SCSI subsystem uses device names
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based on the SCSI bus addresses [discussed later in
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<xref linkend="dnamesdevfs"/> and see reference: <link linkend="W5">W5</link>].
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Alternatively, there is a utility called <command>scsidev</command>
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which addresses this issue within the scope of the Linux SCSI subsystem
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and thus does not have the same system wide impact as devfs. Scsidev is
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discussed later in <xref linkend="dnamesscsidev"/> and ref:
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<link linkend="W6">W6</link>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Eight block major numbers are reserved for SCSI disks: 8, 65, 66, 67, 68,
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69, 70 and 71. Each major can accommodate 256 minor numbers which, in the
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case of SCSI disks, are subdivided as follows:
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<programlisting>
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[b,8,0] /dev/sda
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[b,8,1] /dev/sda1
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....
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[b,8,15] /dev/sda15
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[b,8,16] /dev/sdb
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[b,8,17] /dev/sdb1
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....
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[b,8,255] /dev/sdp15
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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The disk device names without a trailing digit refer to the whole disk
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(e.g. <filename>/dev/sda</filename>)
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while those with a trailing digit refer to one of the 15 allowable
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partitions
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<footnote><para>
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If 15 partitions is too limiting then the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
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might be considered. See <filename>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/LVM-HOWTO
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</filename>. LVM will also allow a logical partition to span multiple
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block devices.
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</para></footnote>
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within that disk.
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</para>
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<para>
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The remaining 7 SCSI disk block major numbers follow a similar pattern:
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<programlisting>
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[b,65,0] /dev/sdq
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[b,65,1] /dev/sdq1
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....
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[b,65,159] /dev/sdz15
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[b,65,160] /dev/sdaa
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[b,65,161] /dev/sdaa1
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....
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[b,65,255] /dev/sdaf15
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[b,66,0] /dev/sdag
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[b,66,1] /dev/sdag1
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....
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[b,66,255] /dev/sdav15
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....
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[b,71,255] /dev/sddx15
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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So there are 128 possible disks (i.e. <filename>/dev/sda</filename> to
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<filename>/dev/sddx</filename>) each having up
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to 15 partitions. By way of contrast, the IDE subsystem allows 20 disks
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(10 controllers each with 1 master and 1 slave) which can have up to 63
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partitions each.
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</para>
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<para>
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SCSI CD-ROM devices are allocated the block major number of 11. Traditionally
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<filename>sr</filename> has been the device name but <filename>scd</filename>
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probably is more recognizable and is
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favoured by several recent distributions. 256 SCSI CD-ROM devices are
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allowed:
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<programlisting>
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[b,11,0] /dev/scd0 [or /dev/sr0]
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[b,11,255] /dev/scd255 [or /dev/sr255]
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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SCSI tape devices are allocated the char major number of 9. Up to 32 tape
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devices are supported each of which can be accessed in one of four modes
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(0, 1, 2 and 3), with or without rewind. The devices are allocated as
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follows:
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<programlisting>
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[c,9,0] /dev/st0 [tape 0, mode 0, rewind]
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[c,9,1] /dev/st1 [tape 1, mode 0, rewind]
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....
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[c,9,31] /dev/st31 [tape 31, mode 0, rewind]
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[c,9,32] /dev/st0l [tape 0, mode 1, rewind]
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....
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[c,9,63] /dev/st31l [tape 31, mode 1, rewind]
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[c,9,64] /dev/st0m [tape 0, mode 2, rewind]
|
|
....
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|
[c,9,96] /dev/st0a [tape 0, mode 3, rewind]
|
|
....
|
|
[c,9,127] /dev/st31a [tape 31, mode 3, rewind]
|
|
[c,9,128] /dev/nst0 [tape 0, mode 0, no rewind]
|
|
....
|
|
[c,9,160] /dev/nst0l [tape 0, mode 1, no rewind]
|
|
....
|
|
[c,9,192] /dev/nst0m [tape 0, mode 2, no rewind]
|
|
....
|
|
[c,9,224] /dev/nst0a [tape 0, mode 3, no rewind]
|
|
....
|
|
[c,9,255] /dev/nst31a [tape 31, mode 3, no rewind]
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI generic (sg) devices are allocated the char major number of 21.
|
|
There are 256 possible SCSI generic (sg) devices:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
[c,21,0] /dev/sg0
|
|
[c,21,1] /dev/sg1
|
|
....
|
|
[c,21,255] /dev/sg255
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Note that the SCSI generic device name's use of a trailing letter (e.g.
|
|
<filename>/dev/sgc</filename>) is deprecated.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Each SCSI disk (but not each partition), each SCSI CD-ROM and each SCSI
|
|
tape is mapped to an sg device. SCSI devices that don't fit into these
|
|
three categories (e.g. scanners) also appear as sg devices.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Pseudo devices [see <xref linkend="llevelpseudo"/>] can cause devices
|
|
that are usually not considered as SCSI to appear as SCSI device names.
|
|
For example an ATAPI CD-ROM may be picked up by the ide-scsi pseudo
|
|
driver and mapped to <filename>/dev/scd0</filename> .
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <filename>linux/Documentation/devices.txt</filename> file supplied
|
|
within the kernel source is the definitive reference for Linux device
|
|
names and their corresponding major and minor number allocations.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="dnamesdevfs">
|
|
<title>Device Names in devfs</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The device pseudo file system can be mounted as <filename>/dev</filename> in
|
|
which case it replaces the traditional Linux device subdirectory.
|
|
Alternatively it can be mounted elsewhere (e.g. <filename>/devfs</filename>)
|
|
and supplement the existing device structure.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Without devfs, devices names are typically maintained in the
|
|
<filename>dev</filename> directory
|
|
of the root partition. Hence the device names (and their associated
|
|
permissions) have file system persistence. The existence of a device name
|
|
does not necessarily imply such a device (or even its driver) is present. To
|
|
save users having to create device name entries (with the <command>mknod
|
|
</command> command) most Linux distributions come with thousands of device
|
|
names defined in the <filename>/dev</filename> directory. When applications
|
|
try to open() the device name then an errno value of ENODEV indicates there
|
|
is no corresponding device (or driver) currently available.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Devfs takes a different approach in which the existence of the device name
|
|
is directly related to the presence of the corresponding device (and its
|
|
driver).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Assuming devfs is mounted on <filename>/dev</filename> then SCSI devices
|
|
have primary device names that might look like this:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc [whole disk]
|
|
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part6 [partition 6]
|
|
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/generic [sg device for disk]
|
|
|
|
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/cd [CD reader or writer]
|
|
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/generic [sg device for cd]
|
|
|
|
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/mt [tape mode 0 rewind]
|
|
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/mtan [tape mode 3 no rewind]
|
|
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/generic [sg device for tape]
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
The sg device on the third line corresponds to the "whole disk" on the
|
|
first line since they have the same SCSI address (i.e.
|
|
<filename>host0/bus0/target1/lun0</filename>). If the sg driver is a module
|
|
and it has not yet been loaded (or it has been unloaded) then the
|
|
"generic" device names in the above list will not be present.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
[Notice the spelling of "disc" as the devfs author favours English spelling
|
|
over the American variant.] It can be seen that devfs's naming scheme
|
|
closely matches the SCSI addressing discussed in
|
|
<xref linkend="scsiaddr"/>. It is worth noting that the IDE subsystem uses
|
|
a similar devfs device naming scheme with the word "scsi" replaced with
|
|
"ide". Devfs is discussed further in <xref linkend="devfs"/>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="dnamesscsidev">
|
|
<title>Device Names in scsidev</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A utility program called <command>scsidev</command> adds device names to
|
|
the <filename>/dev/scsi</filename> directory that reflect the SCSI address
|
|
of each device. The first 2 letters of the name are the upper level SCSI
|
|
driver name (i.e. either sd, sr, st or sg). The number following the "h"
|
|
is the host number while the number following the "-" is meant for
|
|
host identification purposes. For PCI adapters this seems to be always
|
|
0 while for ISA adapters it is their IO address. [Perhaps this field
|
|
could be made more informative or dropped.] The numbers following
|
|
the "c", "i" and "l" are channel (bus), target id and lun values
|
|
respectively. Raw disks are shown without a trailing partition number
|
|
while partitions contained within them are shown with the partition
|
|
number following a "p".
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The <command>scsidev</command> would typically be run as part of the
|
|
boot up sequence. It may also be useful to run it after the SCSI
|
|
configuration has changed (e.g. adding or removing lower level driver
|
|
modules, or the use of the add/remove-single-device command). After
|
|
<command>scsidev</command> has been run on my system which contains
|
|
2 disks, a cd reader and writer plus a scanner, then the following
|
|
names were added in the <filename>/dev/scsi</filename> directory:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ ls -l /dev/scsi/ # abridged
|
|
total 0
|
|
brw------- 8, 0 Sep 2 11:56 sdh0-0c0i0l0
|
|
brw------- 8, 1 Sep 2 11:56 sdh0-0c0i0l0p1
|
|
...
|
|
brw------- 8, 8 Sep 2 11:56 sdh0-0c0i0l0p8
|
|
brw------- 8, 16 Sep 2 11:56 sdh0-0c0i1l0
|
|
brw------- 8, 17 Sep 2 11:56 sdh0-0c0i1l0p1
|
|
...
|
|
brw------- 8, 24 Sep 2 11:56 sdh0-0c0i1l0p8
|
|
crw------- 21, 0 Sep 2 11:56 sgh0-0c0i0l0
|
|
crw------- 21, 1 Sep 2 11:56 sgh0-0c0i1l0
|
|
crw------- 21, 2 Sep 2 11:56 sgh1-0c0i2l0
|
|
crw------- 21, 3 Sep 2 11:56 sgh1-0c0i5l0
|
|
crw------- 21, 4 Sep 2 11:56 sgh1-0c0i6l0
|
|
br-------- 11, 0 Sep 2 11:56 srh1-0c0i2l0
|
|
br-------- 11, 1 Sep 2 11:56 srh1-0c0i6l0
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
The mapping between the SCSI generic device names (sg) and their corresponding
|
|
names when controlled by other upper level drivers (i.e. sd, sr or st) can
|
|
be seen by looking for name matches when the second letter is ignored.
|
|
Hence "sdh0-0c0i0l0" and "sgh0-0c0i0l0" refer to the same device. By process
|
|
of elimination the "sgh1-0c0i5l0" filename is the scanner since that class
|
|
of devices can only be accessed via the sg interface.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The scsidev package also includes the ability to introduce names like
|
|
<filename>/dev/scsi/scanner</filename> by manipulating the <filename>
|
|
/etc/scsi.alias</filename> configuration file. The package also includes
|
|
the useful <command>rescan-scsi-bus.sh</command> utility.
|
|
For further information about <command>scsidev</command> see
|
|
<link linkend="W6">W6</link>. On my system, both devfs and scsidev
|
|
co-exist happily.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="kconfig">
|
|
<title>Kernel Configuration</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The Linux kernel configuration is usually found in the kernel source in
|
|
the file: <filename>/usr/src/linux/.config</filename> . It is not
|
|
recommended to edit this file directly but to use one of these configuration
|
|
options:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para><command>make config</command> - starts a character based
|
|
questions and answer session</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para><command>make menuconfig</command> - starts a
|
|
terminal-oriented configuration tool (using ncurses)</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para><command>make xconfig</command> - starts a
|
|
X based configuration tool</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The descriptions of these selections that is displayed by the associated
|
|
help button can be found in the flat ASCII file:
|
|
<filename>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help</filename>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Ultimately these configuration tools edit the <filename>.config</filename>
|
|
file. An option will either indicate some driver is built into the
|
|
kernel ("=y") or will be built as a module ("=m") or is not selected.
|
|
The unselected state can either be indicated by a line starting with
|
|
"#" (e.g. "# CONFIG_SCSI is not set") or by the absence of the relevant
|
|
line from the <filename>.config</filename> file.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The 3 states of the main selection option for the SCSI subsystem (which
|
|
actually selects the SCSI mid level driver) follow. Only one of these
|
|
should appear in an actual <filename>.config</filename> file:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI=y
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI=m
|
|
# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Some other common SCSI configuration options are:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD [disk (sd) driver]
|
|
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS [extra slots for disks added later]
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR [SCSI cdrom (sr) driver]
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR [allow vendor specific cdrom commands]
|
|
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS [extra slots for cdroms added later]
|
|
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST [tape (st) driver]
|
|
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST [OnSteam tape (osst) driver]
|
|
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG [SCSI generic (sg) driver]
|
|
CONFIG_DEBUG_QUEUES [for debugging multiple queues]
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN [allow probes above lun 0]
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS [symbolic decode of SCSI errors]
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING [allow logging to be runtime selected]
|
|
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_<ll_driver> [numerous lower level adapter drivers]
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG [lower level driver for debugging]
|
|
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA [older parallel port zip drives]
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_IMM [newer parallel port zip drives]
|
|
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI [ide-scsi pseudo adapter]
|
|
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI [scsi command set over i2o bus]
|
|
CONFIG_SCSI_PCMCIA [for SCSI HBAs on PCMCIA bus]
|
|
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE [usb "mass storage" type]
|
|
|
|
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ [Alt+SysRq+S for emergency sync]
|
|
[Alt+SyrRq+U for emergency remount ro]
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If the root file system is on a SCSI disk then it makes sense
|
|
to build into the kernel the SCSI mid level, the sd driver and
|
|
the host adapter driver that the disk is connected to. In most cases
|
|
it is usually safe to build the sr, st and sg drivers as modules so
|
|
that they are loaded as required. If a device like a scanner is on
|
|
a separate adapter then its driver may well be built as a module. In
|
|
this case, that adapter driver will need to be loaded before the
|
|
scanner will be recognized.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Linux distributions have many of the SCSI subsystem drivers built as
|
|
modules since building all of them in would lead to a very
|
|
large kernel that would exceed the capabilities of the boot loader.
|
|
This leads to a "chicken and the egg" problem in which the SCSI
|
|
drivers are needed to load the root file system and vice versa. The
|
|
2 phase load used by the initrd device addresses this problem
|
|
(see <xref linkend="modparams"/> for more details).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="bparams">
|
|
<title>Boot Parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
On a PC the motherboard's BIOS together with the SCSI BIOS provided
|
|
by most SCSI host adapters takes care of the problem of loading the
|
|
boot loader's image from a SCSI disk into memory and executing it. This
|
|
may require some settings to be changed in the motherboard's BIOS. When
|
|
more than one SCSI adapter is involved, the SCSI BIOS settings may need
|
|
to change to indicate which one contains the disk with the boot image.
|
|
The boot image make also come from an ATA (IDE) disk, a bootable CD-ROM or
|
|
a floppy.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Both <emphasis>lilo</emphasis> and <emphasis>grub</emphasis> are commonly
|
|
used boot loaders with Linux. Their configuration files are in
|
|
<filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> and <filename>/etc/grub.conf</filename>
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
One slight wrinkle with grub is that <filename>/etc/grub.conf</filename> is
|
|
a symbolic link to <filename>/boot/grub/grub.conf</filename>. This can be
|
|
useful to know when <filename>/boot</filename> is a separate partition.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
respectively. One difference is that after changing lilo's configuration the
|
|
<command>lilo</command> command must be executed for the changes to take
|
|
effect (and there is no equivalent requirement for grub). See their "man"
|
|
pages for usage information. An excellent paper on lilo and the Linux bootup
|
|
sequence can be found
|
|
<ulink url="ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/booting/bootinglinux-0.ps.gz">
|
|
<literal>ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/booting/bootinglinux-0.ps.gz</literal></ulink>.
|
|
For further information on grub see
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub">
|
|
<literal>www.gnu.org/software/grub</literal></ulink>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Some boot parameters related to the SCSI subsystem:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
single [enter single user mode]
|
|
<n> [enter run level <n> {0..6}]
|
|
root=/dev/sda6 [*]
|
|
root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 [*]
|
|
root=/dev/sd/c0b0t0u0p6 [*]
|
|
devfs=mount [overrides CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=n]
|
|
devfs=nomount [overrides CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y]
|
|
init=<command> [executes <command> rather than init]
|
|
quiet [reduce output to console during boot]
|
|
debug [increase output to console during boot]
|
|
nmi_watchdog=0 [turn off NMI watchdog on a SMP machine]
|
|
max_scsi_luns=1 [limits SCSI bus scans to lun==0]
|
|
scsi_allow_ghost_devices=<n>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
* When devfs is in use the initial read-only mount
|
|
of the root partition can be done via the old
|
|
/dev/sd<a><n> notation or the new devfs
|
|
notation (and two of these are shown).
|
|
The joint "root=/dev/sda6 single" may be useful
|
|
when disk or adapter changes have broken the
|
|
kernel boot load.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The "root=" argument may also be a hex number. For example, if the root
|
|
partition is on <filename>/dev/sda3</filename> then "root=803" is
|
|
appropriate. The last two digits are the minor device number discussed
|
|
in an earlier section.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The default argument to the "init" parameter is <filename>/sbin/init
|
|
</filename> (see man (8) init). If files such as <filename>/etc/fstab
|
|
</filename> have incorrect entries, it may be useful to drop directly
|
|
into a shell with "init=/bin/bash". However if shared libraries files
|
|
or their paths are inappropriate this may also fail. That leaves
|
|
"init=/sbin/sash" which is a statically linked shell with many useful
|
|
commands (for repairing a system) built in (see man (8) sash).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When Linux fails to boot after reporting a message like:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
then the kernel expected to find a root partition on device
|
|
<filename>/dev/sda2</filename> and did not. The numbers in the
|
|
error message are major and minor device numbers (in hex)
|
|
[see <xref linkend="dnames"/> for
|
|
the mapping to device names]. In such situations the "root" boot option
|
|
can be useful (also the <command>rdev</command> command can be used to
|
|
modify where the boot image looks for the root partition).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Lilo's configuration file <filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename>
|
|
can take the "root=" option in two ways. The normal way is a line
|
|
like: 'root=/dev/sda2'.
|
|
In this case <filename>/dev/sda2</filename> is converted into major
|
|
and minor numbers based on the state of the system <emphasis>when
|
|
</emphasis> the <command>lilo</command> command is executed. This can be
|
|
a nuisance, especially if hardware is going to be re-arranged.
|
|
The other way is a line of the form: 'append="root=/dev/sda2"'
|
|
In this case the <filename>/dev/sda2</filename> is passed through
|
|
to the kernel the next time it is started. This is the same as
|
|
giving the "root=/dev/sda2" string at the kernel boot time prompt.
|
|
It is interpreted by the kernel at startup (once the HBAs and their
|
|
attached devices have been recognized) and thus is more flexible.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="modparams">
|
|
<title>Modules and their Parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There are many SCSI related modules. The mid and upper level modules
|
|
are listed below:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para> scsi_mod.o </para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para> sd_mod.o </para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para> sr_mod.o </para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para> st.o [osst.o] </para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para> sg.o </para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Notice that the first 3 have "_mod" appended to their normal driver names.
|
|
Lower level drivers tend to use the name (or an abbreviation) of the
|
|
HBA's manufacturer (e.g. advansys)
|
|
plus optionally the chip number of the major controller chip (e.g.
|
|
sym53c8xx for symbios controllers based on the NCR 53c8?? family of chips).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All SCSI modules depend on the mid level. This means if the SCSI mid
|
|
level is not built into the kernel and if <filename>scsi_mod.o</filename>
|
|
has not already been loaded then a command like <command>modprobe st</command>
|
|
will cause the <filename>scsi_mod.o</filename> module to be loaded. There
|
|
could well be other dependencies, for example <command>modprobe sr_mod
|
|
</command> will also cause the cdrom module to be loaded if it hasn't been
|
|
already. Also if the SCSI mid level is a module, then all other SCSI
|
|
subsystem drivers must be modules (this is enforced by the kernel build
|
|
configuration tools).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Modules can be loaded with the <command>modprobe <module_name>
|
|
</command> command which will try to load any modules that the
|
|
nominated <module_name> depends on.
|
|
Also <module_name> does not need the trailing ".o" extension which
|
|
is assumed if not given. The <command>insmod <module_name></command>
|
|
command will also try
|
|
and load <module_name> but without first loading modules it depends on.
|
|
Rules for how modules can cause other modules to be loaded (with
|
|
appropriate parameters appended) are usually placed in the file
|
|
<filename>/etc/modules.conf</filename>. [Note that in earlier Linux kernels
|
|
this file was often called <filename>/etc/conf.modules</filename>.]
|
|
For further information about the format of this file try
|
|
<command>man modules.conf</command>.
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</para>
|
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<para>
|
|
Any module can have its allowable command line parameters queried with
|
|
this command: <command>modinfo -p <module_name></command>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When upper level drivers are initialized and if there are no hosts active
|
|
then the mid level will attempt to load a module called "scsi_hostadapter".
|
|
An "alias" can then be used to associate "scsi_hostadapter" with the actual
|
|
name of the lower level (adapter) driver.
|
|
For example, a line like "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" in the
|
|
<filename>/etc/modules.conf</filename> file would cause the aic7xxx module
|
|
to be loaded (if there were no lower level drivers already active).
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
There is a sequencing issue here if the root file system is on the SCSI
|
|
device controlled by the lower level (adapter) driver to be loaded since
|
|
it contains the <filename>/etc/modules.conf</filename> file. Also there
|
|
is the issue of how the boot loader obtains the initial kernel image from
|
|
a SCSI device (often from the (master) boot record). The latter is usually
|
|
taken care of by the system's or adapter card's BIOS.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There is a special relationship between the module parameter
|
|
"scsi_hostadapter" and the initrd file system. For more information see
|
|
<command>man initrd</command> and <command>man mkinitrd</command>.
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
An example of using <command>mkinitrd</command>: assume the root
|
|
partition is on a SCSI disk connected to a controller from
|
|
Adaptec that requires the aic7xxx driver. After
|
|
building a kernel with the aic7xxx driver specified as a module then
|
|
load the image into the normal place (probably in the
|
|
<filename>/boot</filename> directory). Next make sure a line like
|
|
"alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" is in the <filename>/etc/modules.conf
|
|
</filename> file. Then from the <filename>/boot</filename> directory
|
|
execute a line like <command>mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.5.img 2.4.5</command>
|
|
(this assumes lk 2.4.5 is being build). This should result in the
|
|
file <filename>initrd-2.4.5.img</filename> being created. The
|
|
<filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> should then have a section added
|
|
looking something like this:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5
|
|
label=linux
|
|
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5.img
|
|
read-only
|
|
root=/dev/sda7
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
The following should also be selected in the kernel configuration:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
|
|
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
See also <filename>Documentation/initrd.txt</filename>.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="procfs">
|
|
<title>Proc pseudo file system</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The proc pseudo file system provides some useful information about the
|
|
SCSI subsystem. The kernel configuration option that selects "proc_fs"
|
|
is CONFIG_PROC_FS and in almost all cases it should be selected. SCSI
|
|
specific information
|
|
is found under the directory <filename>/proc/scsi</filename>. Probably
|
|
the most commonly accessed entry is <command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command>
|
|
which lists the attached SCSI devices. See
|
|
<xref linkend="mlproc"/> for more details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The lower level drivers are allocated proc_fs entries of the form:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/proc/scsi/<driver_name>/<scsi_adapter_number>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
where the <driver_name> is something like "aic7xxx" or "BusLogic". The
|
|
<scsi_adapter_number> (also known as the host number) is the same number
|
|
that was discussed in <xref linkend="scsiaddr"/>. Note that one driver
|
|
may control one or more hosts.
|
|
What is stored in this file is lower level driver dependent (and in the
|
|
case of some adapter drivers it
|
|
is possible to set parameters via this file). When reporting problems
|
|
to newsgroups or maintainers it is useful to include the output of this
|
|
file (e.g. <command>cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 </command>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The cdrom driver provides information about attached cdrom devices
|
|
in the <filename>/proc/sys/dev/cdrom</filename> directory. This will
|
|
include both SCSI devices (i.e. those controlled by the sr driver) and
|
|
IDE devices (i.e. those controlled by the ide-cd driver).
|
|
See <xref linkend="srproc"/>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sg driver provides information about its state and attached hosts and
|
|
devices in the <filename>/proc/scsi/sg</filename> directory.
|
|
See <xref linkend="sgproc"/>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
More general information on the proc pseudo file system can be found in
|
|
the kernel source file:
|
|
<filename>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="mlevel">
|
|
<title>Mid Level, Unifying layer</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI mid level is common to all usage of the SCSI subsystem. Probably
|
|
its most important role is to define internal interfaces and services that
|
|
are used by all other SCSI drivers. These internal mechanisms are not
|
|
discussed in this document [see ref: <link linkend="W2">W2</link>].
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The primary kernel configuration parameter "CONFIG_SCSI" determines whether
|
|
the mid level is built in (when "=y") or a module (when "=m"). If
|
|
"CONFIG_SCSI=m" then all other SCSI subsystem drivers must also be modules.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When the mid level is built as a module then it probably never needs to be
|
|
loaded explicitly because using 'modprobe' to load any other SCSI subsystem
|
|
module will cause the mid level to be loaded first (if it is not already).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Some upper and lower level drivers do not (fully) load if there are no
|
|
devices for that driver to control. Sometimes the report is loud as in
|
|
this case for the imm driver which controls zip drives connected to a
|
|
parallel port:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ modprobe imm
|
|
imm.o: init_module: No such device
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
<command>lsmod</command> will not show the "imm" module as loaded.
|
|
In other cases the result is more subtle. For example, if the sg driver
|
|
is loaded in a system with no (real or pseudo) scsi devices then the
|
|
<filename>/proc/scsi/sg</filename> directory will not appear. [It will
|
|
be created when the first scsi device is recognized.]
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="mlbparams">
|
|
<title>boot parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
SCSI drivers that are built into the kernel are checked in a pre-determined
|
|
order to see if HBAs that they can control are present. The user has no
|
|
control over this order which in most cases is
|
|
arbitrary but in the case of some older ISA adapters is required to stop
|
|
misidentification
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
PCI adapters are much "safer" for initialization code than the older ISA
|
|
adapters. Hence the order of initialization of PCI adapters is unlikely
|
|
to lead to lockups. In this case the order of initialization (and thus
|
|
SCSI adapter numbers) of built in drivers may be modified by changing the
|
|
order of entries in the SCSI subsystem Makefile (<filename>
|
|
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile</filename>). Beware: some adapters
|
|
may be recognized by more than one lower level driver (e.g. those
|
|
based on NCR chipsets).
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
.
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
scsi_logging=<n>
|
|
where <n> is 0 to turn logging off
|
|
where <n> is non-zero to turn logging on
|
|
|
|
max_scsi_luns=<n>
|
|
where <n> is a number between 1 and 8 (< lk 2.4.7),
|
|
>= lk 2.4.7 the upper limit can be much larger
|
|
|
|
scsi_allow_ghost_devices=<n>
|
|
where (<n> - 1) is the maximum lu number to ghost if the
|
|
the corresponding device is offline. When <n>==0
|
|
(default) then don't ghost any devices (in lk 2.4.26
|
|
and later)
|
|
|
|
scsihosts=host0:hosts1::host3
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The recently introduced devfs defines a "scsihosts"
|
|
boot time parameter to give the user some control over this. See the
|
|
devfs documentation [ref: <link linkend="W5">W5</link>] for a description.
|
|
The host names given in the list to the "scsihosts" boot option are
|
|
the names of lower level drivers (e.g. "scsihosts=advansys:imm::ide-scsi").
|
|
<footnote>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Either comma or colon can be delimiters for "scsihosts". This means that
|
|
"scsihosts=advansys,imm,,ide-scsi" is also valid. Also if a machine's
|
|
boot sequence involves an "initrd" stage (look in
|
|
<filename>/etc/grub.conf</filename> or <filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename>
|
|
to find out if this is the case), then the <command>mkinitrd</command>
|
|
command should be run after a change to the "scsihosts" boot time parameter.
|
|
This will generate a new initrd image that needs to be put in the
|
|
correct place (most probably in the <filename>/boot</filename>
|
|
directory).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</footnote>
|
|
<footnote>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Using "scsihosts" can lead to a situation in which the computer's BIOS finds
|
|
the boot track (and hence boot time parameters set in lilo or grub) on one
|
|
disk while the kernel finds the root partition on another disk. This can
|
|
be quite confusing when it is unplanned. Hence after changing (or adding)
|
|
"scsihosts" in lilo or grub's configuration, it may be wise to boot the
|
|
machine to see which disks are accessed.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</footnote>
|
|
Devfs does not need to be present for "scsihosts" to be used. The
|
|
"scsihosts" parameter, if given, is echoed during in the boot up messages.
|
|
For example:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
scsi: host order: advansys:imm::ide-scsi
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
Also if multiple HBA are present in a system then they are scanned in
|
|
a fixed order (see footnote). The "scsihosts" parameter only effects how
|
|
these HBAs are indexed (i.e. which SCSI adapter numbers are associated with
|
|
them by the kernel). In the above example, if the "imm" driver is not found
|
|
during boot up, then the scsi adapter number "1" is not allocated. If the
|
|
"imm" driver is later loaded as a module, then it will adopt scsi adapter
|
|
number "1". If a driver that is not named in "scsihosts" is found, then
|
|
it will get the next available scsi adapter number (e.g. a built in
|
|
aic7xxx driver would get scsi adapter number "2" in the above example).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A full list of kernel parameters with some explanations can be found
|
|
in the file <filename>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
|
|
</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="mlmparams">
|
|
<title>module parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If SCSI disks are present in the system then it usually is better to
|
|
build the mid level driver into the kernel. However if the SCSI
|
|
subsystem is only being used periodically (e.g. to burn CD-Rs on
|
|
an ATAPI CD writer) then building the mid level as a module is fine.
|
|
The module load time options are the same as the driver's built in
|
|
options:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
scsi_logging_level=<n>
|
|
where <n> is the logging level mask (0 for logging off)
|
|
max_scsi_luns=<n>
|
|
scsihosts=host0::host2
|
|
scsi_allow_ghost_devices=<n>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="mlproc">
|
|
<title>proc interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
To display the SCSI devices currently attached (and recognized) by the SCSI
|
|
subsystem use <command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The output looks like this:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
Attached devices:
|
|
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-303 Rev: 1.10
|
|
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
|
|
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
|
|
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
After the "Attached devices:" line there are 3 lines for each recognized
|
|
device. The first of these lines is SCSI address information discussed in
|
|
<xref linkend="scsiaddr"/>. The following 2 lines of data are
|
|
obtained from a INQUIRY
|
|
command that was performed on the device when it was attached. See
|
|
<xref linkend="sg"/> for the relationship between the ordering of these
|
|
devices compared with the sg driver's ordering (which most of the time is
|
|
the same).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Existing devices can be removed using <command>
|
|
echo "scsi remove-single-device <h> <b> <t> <l>"
|
|
> /proc/scsi/scsi</command>
|
|
where the variables are host, bus (channel), target (scsi id) and lun. The
|
|
success (or otherwise) of this command can be determined by sending a
|
|
subsequent <command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command> command. The removal
|
|
will fail if the
|
|
device is busy (e.g. if a file system on the device is mounted).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
New devices can be added using <command>
|
|
echo "scsi add-single-device <h> <b> <t> <l>"
|
|
> /proc/scsi/scsi</command>
|
|
where the variables are host, bus (channel), target (scsi id) and lun. The
|
|
success (or otherwise) of this command can be determined by sending a
|
|
subsequent <command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command> command.
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
The parsing of "add-single-device" and "remove-single-device" is rather
|
|
inflexible. Hence it is best to stay close to the demonstrated syntax
|
|
with no extra spaces (and no tabs).
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI subsystem does not support hot-plugging of SCSI devices (there may
|
|
also be electrical issues on the associated SCSI parallel bus). It is
|
|
recommended that those who use add+remove-single-device make sure that
|
|
other devices on that SCSI bus are inactive if re-plugging is going to
|
|
take place.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
To output a list of internal SCSI command blocks use <command>
|
|
echo "scsi dump <n>" > /proc/scsi/scsi</command>
|
|
where the numeric value of <n> doesn't matter. This is probably only of
|
|
interest to people chasing down bugs within the SCSI subsystem.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
To start (or stop) logging information being sent to the console/log use
|
|
<command>
|
|
echo "scsi log <token> <n>" > /proc/scsi/scsi
|
|
</command>
|
|
where <token> is one of: {all, none, error, timeout, scan, mlqueue,
|
|
mlcomplete, llqueue, llcomplete, hlqueue, hlcomplete, ioctl}
|
|
and <n> is a number between 0 and 7. The tokens "all" and "none" don't
|
|
take an <n> argument. Prefix meanings:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
hl upper level drivers [exception: sg uses "timeout"]
|
|
ml mid level
|
|
ll lower level drivers
|
|
[adapter drivers often have there own flags]
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
The value "0" turns off logging while "7" maximizes the volume of output.
|
|
Logging information will only be output if CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING was selected
|
|
in the kernel build.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<warning>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Warning: "scsi log all" (and several other variants) can cause a logging
|
|
infinite loop if the log file (typically <filename>/var/log/messages
|
|
</filename>) lies on a SCSI disk. Either turn off the kernel logging
|
|
daemon or direct its output to a non SCSI device.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="ulevel">
|
|
<title>Upper level drivers</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The upper level drivers maintain the kernel side of the OS interface
|
|
for the logical class of devices they represent (e.g. disks). They
|
|
are also responsible for managing certain kernel and SCSI subsystem
|
|
resources such as kernel memory and SCSI command structures.
|
|
Applications in the user space access these drivers by opening a special
|
|
file (block or char) typically found in the <filename>/dev
|
|
</filename> directory tree.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="sd">
|
|
<title>Disk driver (sd)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Two types of SCSI devices are accessible via the sd driver:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>"direct access" devices which are usually magnetic disks.
|
|
[SCSI peripheral device code is 0]</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>"Optical memory devices" which are often called MOD
|
|
disks. [SCSI peripheral device code is 7]</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
The sd driver is a block device which means that it is closely associated
|
|
with the block subsystem. It also supports the concept of partitions.
|
|
[<command>man sd</command> dates from 1992.]
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sd driver is capable of recognizing 128 disks when it is loaded
|
|
at kernel boot time or later as a module. However, once it is loaded,
|
|
it will only recognize a fixed number of additional disks. The number
|
|
of additional disks that can be accommodated is set by the kernel
|
|
configuration parameter CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS whose default value is 40.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="sdbparams">
|
|
<title>sd boot parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
None.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="sdmparams">
|
|
<title>sd module parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sd driver takes no parameters when loaded as a module. Note that
|
|
its module name is <filename>sd_mod.o</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="sr">
|
|
<title>CDROM driver (sr or scd)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
CDROM and DVD drives (and WORM devices) are accessible via the sr upper
|
|
level device driver.
|
|
While "sr" is the device driver name, "sr_mod" is its module name.
|
|
The device file name is either <filename>/dev/sr<n></filename> or
|
|
<filename>/dev/scd<n></filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Following is a diagram illustrating the CDROM subsystem of which sr is a
|
|
part:
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<mediaobject>
|
|
<imageobject>
|
|
<imagedata fileref="cdrom.eps" format="EPS"/>
|
|
</imageobject>
|
|
<imageobject>
|
|
<imagedata fileref="cdrom.jpg" format="JPG"/>
|
|
</imageobject>
|
|
<caption><para>
|
|
The architecture of the CD-ROM subsystem.
|
|
</para></caption>
|
|
</mediaobject>
|
|
|
|
<para>
|
|
This diagram glosses over some of the differences between the
|
|
protocol stacks. CDROM device names are <emphasis>not</emphasis> maintained
|
|
by the uniform CDROM layer but rather by each individual protocol stack.
|
|
In the case of the SCSI subsystem, device names are maintained by the
|
|
sr driver while the IDE subsystem maintains device names with its
|
|
central "ide" driver (i.e. not by the ide-cd driver). USB and IEEE1394
|
|
cd devices names are maintained by their respective stacks. This may
|
|
partially explain why the <filename>/dev/cdrom</filename> is often a
|
|
symbolic link to the appropriate subsystem's device name.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Two types of SCSI devices are accessible via the sr driver:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>CD-ROM devices (including DVD players)
|
|
[SCSI peripheral device code is 5]</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>"Write-once read-multiple" devices which are known as WORMs.
|
|
[SCSI peripheral device code is 4]</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sr driver is capable of recognizing 256 CDROM/DVD drives when it is
|
|
loaded at kernel boot time or later as a module. However, once it is
|
|
loaded, it will only recognize a fixed number of additional drives. The
|
|
number of additional drives that can be accommodated is set by the kernel
|
|
configuration parameter CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS whose default value is 2.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
People often use the <command>dd</command> command to read a data CDROM
|
|
containing an iso9660 file system. If a count argument is not given then
|
|
the <command>dd</command> command will read the number of 2048 byte sectors
|
|
indicated by the SCSI Read Capacity command. Unfortunately this can
|
|
include unwritten (or "run out") sectors at the end of the image that can
|
|
cause I/O errors. Use the <command>isosize</command> command (see its man
|
|
page) to find the true length of the iso9660 image and use that in the
|
|
"count=" argument given to the <command>dd</command> command.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="srbparams">
|
|
<title>sr boot parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
None.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="srmparams">
|
|
<title>sr module parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Doing a test to find out if a cdrom drive supports XA mode (mode 2) triggers
|
|
firmware bugs on some drives. Consequently the check for XA mode support is
|
|
turned off by default. The following module parameter is provided:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
xa_test=<0|1>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
to override the default. [Currently there seems to be no way to turn on
|
|
XA mode testing when the sr driver is built into the kernel.]
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
<sect2 id="srproc">
|
|
<title>sr proc interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All the following files are readable by all and produce ASCII output
|
|
when read:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoclose
|
|
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoeject
|
|
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/check_media
|
|
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/debug
|
|
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
|
|
/proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
They reflect the current state of the CDROM subsystem. This location
|
|
is part of the procfs's window through to the sysctl configuration
|
|
mechanism (see <command>man sysctl</command>). All but
|
|
<filename>info</filename> are writable by the superuser. There is
|
|
a column for each CDROM and DVD player in the system in
|
|
<filename>info</filename> (not just SCSI devices).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
As an
|
|
example, the auto eject feature can be turned on by the superuser with
|
|
the command <command>echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoeject</command>.
|
|
This will cause cdroms to be ejected from the drive when unmounted.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
<sect2 id="sratapi">
|
|
<title>ATAPI cdroms</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Many Linux users have no SCSI devices (or adapters) in their systems. They
|
|
become a little perplexed as to why cd writer software (e.g.
|
|
<command>cdrecord</command> and <command>cdrdao</command>)
|
|
and cd music reading programs (e.g. <command>cdparanoia</command>) use
|
|
the Linux SCSI subsystem. The answer is that these programs need lower level
|
|
access to these devices. ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) is essentially
|
|
a SCSI command set sent over an ATA
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
ATA is the modern name for what was previously known as IDE and/or EIDE.
|
|
Note that the subsystem that controls ATA devices in Linux is called
|
|
the "IDE" subsystem for historical reasons.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
transport. [The discussion in this section is also applicable to ATAPI
|
|
tape drives and ATAPI floppy drives.]
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Currently both <command>cdrecord</command> and <command>cdparanoia</command>
|
|
interface to the SCSI generic driver (sg) and, in the case of ATAPI
|
|
cd devices, use the ide-scsi pseudo device driver to access the hardware.
|
|
This may change in the future as in the 2.4 series kernels a packet
|
|
interface ioctl has been added to the uniform cdrom layer (see the diagram
|
|
in <xref linkend="sr"/> above).
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
Other ATA devices such as tapes and floppies often use the ATAPI interface.
|
|
However, the vast majority of ATA disks do <emphasis>not</emphasis> use
|
|
the ATAPI interface.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The default action of the IDE subsystem in Linux is to claim all ATA
|
|
devices for its built-in drivers. In the case of an ATAPI cd writer, it
|
|
will be claimed by the built-in ide-cd driver. Once this has happened,
|
|
the SCSI subsystem is unable to get control over an ATAPI device. The
|
|
ide-scsi (pseudo lower level SCSI) driver can only register ATAPI devices
|
|
in the SCSI subsystem that have <emphasis>not</emphasis> already been
|
|
claimed by the IDE subsystem.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Notice the <emphasis>built-in</emphasis> qualification in the previous
|
|
paragraph. If both the ide-cd and ide-scsi drivers are modules then the
|
|
first one loaded will claim the ATAPI cd devices (e.g. cd/dvd readers and
|
|
writers). Furthermore you can switch the controlling driver module by
|
|
<command>rmmod</command>-ing one and <command>modprobe</command>-ing the
|
|
other.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Probably the most flexible way to instruct the IDE core driver that you
|
|
want the cd writer at <filename>/dev/hdd</filename> accessible to
|
|
<command>cdrecord</command> is to use the kernel boot option:
|
|
"hdd=ide-scsi". This will cause the ide-cd driver to bypass
|
|
<filename>/dev/hdd</filename> (irrespective of whether ide-cd driver is
|
|
built-in or a module). As long as the ide-scsi driver is built-in or a
|
|
module then it will "capture" the cd writer
|
|
at <filename>/dev/hdd</filename> (with the IDE core driver loading the
|
|
ide-scsi module if required).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The ide-cd driver module can be instructed to ignore certain ATA devices
|
|
with the following syntax:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
modprobe ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd'
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
In this case the ide-cd driver will ignore the devices at
|
|
<filename>/dev/hdc</filename> and <filename>/dev/hdd</filename> .
|
|
This effect can also be accomplished by placing a line like this:
|
|
"options ide-cd ignore=hdd" in the <filename>/etc/modules.conf</filename>
|
|
file.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A new option added in the lk 2.4 series is of the form "hdd=scsi".
|
|
This option seems to have a similar function to the "hdd=ide-scsi"
|
|
option discussed above. Furthermore "hdd=scsi" can only be used if
|
|
both the SCSI mid-level and the ide-scsi drivers are built into the
|
|
kernel (otherwise "BAD OPTION" is reported by the ide_setup function).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
To find out whether an ATAPI cd device is "owned" by the SCSI subsystem,
|
|
the output of <command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command> can be checked.
|
|
Another technique is to observe the "drive name:" line of
|
|
<command>cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info</command> for "sr" entries. The
|
|
following output is from my system:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
|
|
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.12 2000/10/18
|
|
|
|
drive name: sr1 sr0
|
|
drive speed: 16 0
|
|
drive # of slots: 1 1
|
|
Can close tray: 1 1
|
|
Can open tray: 1 1
|
|
Can lock tray: 1 1
|
|
Can change speed: 1 1
|
|
Can select disk: 0 0
|
|
Can read multisession: 1 1
|
|
Can read MCN: 1 1
|
|
Reports media changed: 1 1
|
|
Can play audio: 1 1
|
|
Can write CD-R: 1 0
|
|
Can write CD-RW: 1 0
|
|
Can read DVD: 0 1
|
|
Can write DVD-R: 0 0
|
|
Can write DVD-RAM: 0 0
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Once an ATAPI cd writer at /dev/hdd has been registered by the SCSI
|
|
subsystem, then cdroms should be mounted via the "scd" device name
|
|
and cd players should also use the "scd" device. Strangely the
|
|
<command>hdparm</command> command should still use the <filename>
|
|
/dev/hdd</filename> device file (or the "echo ... > /proc/ide/hdd/settings"
|
|
method described in this <link linkend="idescsi">section</link>).
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
In the linux 2.4 kernel series there has been an increase in problems when
|
|
the ide-scsi driver is used so that <command>cdrecord</command> can control
|
|
ATAPI (IDE) cd writers. The problem may be related to the aggressive manner
|
|
in which the IDE subsystem attempts to optimize the speed of data transfers
|
|
on devices it controls. Some people experiencing timeouts and machine lockups
|
|
have found that reducing the DMA setting via the <command>hdparm</command>
|
|
command has fixed the problem. If the cd writer is connected to
|
|
<filename>/dev/hdd</filename> then users have reported success with one of
|
|
these two commands:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
hdparm -d0 -c1 /dev/hdd
|
|
hdparm -d 1 -X 34 /dev/hdd
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
The first one turns off DMA completely while the second one sets it in
|
|
"multiword DMA mode 2". Cd writers do not need the types of speeds that
|
|
modern disks utilize. Even burning at "x16" implies a sustained transfer
|
|
rate of 16 times 150 KB/sec which is approximately 2.4 MB/sec, not
|
|
really that fast. There has also been a report that moving a cd writer off
|
|
a high speed IDE controller (Promise) and back to the motherboard's lower
|
|
speed IDE controllers has fixed a random IDE bus reset problem. Another
|
|
report suggests reducing (or turning off) the DMA on the IDE hard disk can
|
|
also stop lockups.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="st">
|
|
<title>Tape driver (st)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The tape driver interface is documented in the file
|
|
<filename>/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.st</filename> and on the
|
|
st(4) man page (type <command>man st</command>). The file
|
|
<filename>README.st</filename> also documents the different parameters and
|
|
options of the driver together with the basic mechanisms used in the driver.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The tape driver is usually accessed via the <command>mt</command> command
|
|
(see <command>man mt</command>). <command>mtx</command> is an associated
|
|
program for controlling tape autoloaders
|
|
(see <ulink url="http://mtx.sourceforge.net">
|
|
<literal>mtx.sourceforge.net</literal></ulink>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The st driver detects those SCSI devices whose peripheral device type
|
|
is "Sequential-access" (code number 1) unless they appear on the
|
|
driver's "reject_list". [Currently the OnStream tape drives (described
|
|
in a following section) are the only entry in this reject_list.]
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The st driver is capable of recognizing 32 tape drives. There are
|
|
8 device file names for each tape drive: a rewind and non-rewind
|
|
variant for each of 4 modes (numbered 0 to 3). See the tape device
|
|
file name examples in <xref linkend="dnames"/> on device names. Any number of
|
|
tape drives (up to the overall limit of 32) can be added after the st
|
|
driver is loaded.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
ATAPI tape drives can be controlled by this driver with help from the
|
|
ide-scsi pseudo adapter driver. The discussion in <xref linkend="sratapi"/>
|
|
also applies for ATAPI tape drives (and ATAPI floppies).
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="stbparams">
|
|
<title>st boot parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
st=xxx[,yyy] where xxx is one of the following:
|
|
buffer_kbs:<n>
|
|
write_threshold_kbs:<n>
|
|
max_buffers:<n>
|
|
max_sg_segs:<n>
|
|
|
|
(The old boot parameters st=aa[,bb[,cc[,dd]]] supported but deprecated)
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The default driver buffer size (buffer_kbs) is 32 (i.e. 32 KB).
|
|
The default asynchronous write threshold (write_threshold_kbs) is 30
|
|
(i.e. 30 KB).
|
|
The default number of buffers allocated at initialization (max_buffers)
|
|
is 4.
|
|
The default number of scatter/gather segments to use (max_sg_segs) is
|
|
32.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="stmparams">
|
|
<title>st module parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
buffer_kbs=<n>
|
|
write_threshold_kbs=<n>
|
|
max_buffers=<n>
|
|
max_sg_segs=<n>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="stproc">
|
|
<title>st proc interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
None.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
<sect2 id="stosst">
|
|
<title>osst driver for OnStream devices</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There is an auxiliary tape driver for tape drives manufactured by
|
|
OnStream. It is an additional upper level driver and can co-exist with
|
|
the st driver. Its driver name is "osst" (as is its module name).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The OnStream SC-x0 SCSI tape drives can not be driven by the
|
|
standard st driver, but instead need this special osst driver and
|
|
use the <filename>/dev/osst<x></filename> char device nodes (major 206).
|
|
[Where <x> follows the same naming scheme as st devices outlined
|
|
in <xref linkend="dnames"/>.]
|
|
Via usb-storage and ide-scsi, you may be able to drive the USB-x0
|
|
and DI-x0 drives as well. Note that there is also a second generation
|
|
of OnStream tape drives (ADR-x0) that supports the standard SCSI-2
|
|
commands for tapes (QIC-157) and can be driven by the standard
|
|
driver st. For more information, you may have a look at the kernel
|
|
source file <filename>/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.osst</filename>.
|
|
More info on the OnStream driver may be found on
|
|
<ulink url="http://linux1.onstream.nl/test/">
|
|
<literal>linux1.onstream.nl/test/</literal></ulink>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="sg">
|
|
<title>Generic driver (sg)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All types of SCSI devices are accessible via the sg driver. This means
|
|
devices such as CDROM drives can be accessed both via the sr and sg
|
|
drivers. Other SCSI devices such as scanners can only be accessed
|
|
via the sg driver.
|
|
The sg driver is capable of recognizing 256 SCSI devices. Any number of
|
|
devices (up to the overall limit of 256) can be added after the sg
|
|
driver is loaded.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
See reference <link linkend="W4">W4</link> for the SCSI Generic (sg) driver
|
|
documentation (also found there is the sg_utils package).
|
|
For SCSI standards see reference <link linkend="W1">W1</link> and for a
|
|
book on the subject of SCSI programming and pass through mechanisms see
|
|
reference <link linkend="B3">B3</link>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sg driver in lk 2.4 is "version 3" which adds an additional interface
|
|
structure and some new ioctl()s. The most interesting new ioctl()
|
|
is SG_IO which sends a SCSI command and waits for its response.
|
|
See the Linux Documentation Project site:
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/">
|
|
<literal>www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/</literal></ulink>
|
|
for a full description of the sg driver.
|
|
A (possibly later) version of this document can be found at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.torque.net/sg/p/sg_v3_ho.html">
|
|
<literal>www.torque.net/sg/p/sg_v3_ho.html</literal></ulink>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The abbreviation "sg" is used within the kernel to refer both to the
|
|
SCSI generic driver and the scatter-gather capability offered by many
|
|
modern IO devices (usually associated with DMA). The context usually
|
|
makes it clear which one is being referred to. As an example, note the
|
|
contorted sg ioctl() named SG_GET_SG_TABLESIZE where the second "SG"
|
|
refers to scatter gather.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The public interface for sg is found in the file: <filename>
|
|
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi/sg.h</filename>. Depending on the distribution
|
|
this may or may not contain the same information as <filename>
|
|
/usr/include/scsi/sg.h</filename> which is controlled by the GNU library
|
|
maintainers. If these 2 files are not the same use the former header
|
|
file. Those writing applications based on sg should see its documentation
|
|
for more on this matter.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sg driver registers all SCSI devices (with a current maximum of 256)
|
|
as they are seen. Each newly registered SCSI device gets allocated the
|
|
next available minor device number. At least initially this will be the
|
|
same sequence that devices are displayed in mid level's <command>
|
|
cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command>. The sg devices device mapping can be
|
|
seen with <command>cat /proc/scsi/sg/devices</command> or <command>
|
|
cat /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs</command>. Differences between
|
|
<command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command> and sg orderings will appear when
|
|
a low level driver is removed (e.g. <command>rmmod aha1542</command>) or
|
|
when a device is removed with remove-single-device.
|
|
The sg driver will leave remaining SCSI device mapping to minor device
|
|
numbers unchanged. This potentially leaves a "hole" in the sg mapping.
|
|
An example follows:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
|
|
Attached devices:
|
|
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
|
|
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
|
|
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-303 Rev: 1.10
|
|
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
|
|
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0g
|
|
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
|
|
|
|
$ cat /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs
|
|
IBM DNES-309170W SA30
|
|
PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-303 1.10
|
|
YAMAHA CRW4416S 1.0g
|
|
|
|
$ echo "scsi remove-single-device 1 0 2 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
|
|
|
|
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
|
|
Attached devices:
|
|
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
|
|
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
|
|
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
|
|
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0g
|
|
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
|
|
|
|
$ cat /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs
|
|
IBM DNES-309170W SA30
|
|
<no active device>
|
|
YAMAHA CRW4416S 1.0g
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
Notice how the sg driver maintains the row positions of the remaining
|
|
devices in the "device_strs" output. So when the Pioneer
|
|
dvd player is removed, a hole opens up in the sg device mapping
|
|
which is not reflected in the <command>cat /proc/scsi/scsi</command>
|
|
output. That "hole" corresponds to the device name <filename>
|
|
/dev/sg1</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The new sg_io_hdr interface includes a data transfer residual count
|
|
field called "resid". Only some lower level adapters support this
|
|
feature and those that don't always yield zero in this field. At
|
|
the time of writing the advansys, aha152x and the sym53c8xx
|
|
drivers support this feature.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="sgbparams">
|
|
<title>sg boot parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sg driver maintains a reserved buffer for each open file descriptor.
|
|
The purpose is to guarantee applications that data transfers up to the
|
|
size of the reserved buffer will not fail for lack of kernel memory. This
|
|
is important for applications like cdrecord that cannot easily recover
|
|
(the CDR) from a ENOMEM error.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
In the absence of the boot parameter 'sg_def_reserved_size' or the sg module
|
|
parameter 'def_reserved_size', then each time a sg file descriptor is opened
|
|
the reserved buffer size is inherited from SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE which is
|
|
defined in <filename>include/linux/sg.h</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE define value can be overridden by this kernel boot
|
|
option:
|
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<programlisting>
|
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sg_def_reserved_size=<n>
|
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</programlisting>
|
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</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="sgmparams">
|
|
<title>sg module parameters</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When the sg module is loaded the SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE define value can be
|
|
overridden by supplying this option:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
def_reserved_size=<n>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="sgproc">
|
|
<title>sg proc interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All the following files are readable by all and produce ASCII output
|
|
when read. The file
|
|
'def_reserved_size' is also writable by root. The ASCII output has been
|
|
formatted in such a way as to be human and machine readable (and hence
|
|
a compromise). Use Unix commands of the form <command>cat device_hdrs devices
|
|
</command> to see the output of tables.
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/debug [internal state of sg driver]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/def_reserved_size
|
|
[like boot/module load parameter]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/devices [table of numeric device data]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/device_hdr [column headers for sg/devices]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/device_strs [table of strings from INQUIRY]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/hosts [table of numeric host data]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/host_hdr [column headers for sg/hosts]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/host_strs [table of string ids for hosts]
|
|
/proc/scsi/sg/version [sg version number and date]
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
All the above files are owned by root and readable by all while
|
|
<filename>def_reserved_size</filename> is writable by root. For the
|
|
<filename>devices</filename> and <filename>device_strs</filename> files
|
|
the first row output corresponds to <filename>/dev/sg0</filename>
|
|
(sg minor device number 0). The second row output corresponds to
|
|
<filename>/dev/sg1</filename>, etc.
|
|
For the <filename>hosts</filename> and <filename>host_strs</filename>
|
|
files the first row output corresponds to host (adapter number) 0, etc.
|
|
For numeric tables a missing device or host is indicated by a row
|
|
of "-1" values. For string tables a missing device or host is indicated
|
|
by a row containing "<no active device/host>".
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="llevel">
|
|
<title>Lower Level drivers</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There are too many SCSI low level drivers to detail in this document.
|
|
As an alternative to giving any superficial overview here, the reader is
|
|
given suggestions of places to look for further information.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The source directory for the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel is a good place
|
|
to start: <filename>/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi</filename>. Several drivers
|
|
have information in a "readme" file: <filename>README.<driver_name>
|
|
</filename>. Others have extensive information at the top of their ".c" file
|
|
This information often includes a version number, change logs and kernel
|
|
boot time and module load
|
|
time options. Often the latter information can be found in the installation
|
|
guides of the various Linux distributions. Sometimes the driver maintainer will
|
|
have a web site containing the most recent bug fix information. Official
|
|
maintainers are listed in the <filename>/usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS</filename>
|
|
file. If there is nothing there, look in the relevant ".c" file in the SCSI
|
|
subsystem directory. Some old drivers have no active maintainers. In such cases
|
|
posting to the linux-scsi newsgroup may help [see <link linkend="N1">N1
|
|
</link>].
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
For an overview of the drivers supplied with the kernel source tree,
|
|
use one of the kernel configuration programs (e.g.
|
|
<command>cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig</command>). The help
|
|
information associated with each selection can be found together in one
|
|
(large) flat file at
|
|
<filename>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help</filename>.
|
|
Drivers can be obtained from other places. It is unlikely that a SCSI
|
|
driver made for the lk 2.2 series (or before) will build or operate
|
|
successfully in the lk 2.4 series. [From a programmatic viewpoint
|
|
there are not a lot of things that need changing.] Drivers may even
|
|
be only available in binary form, in which case make sure that you
|
|
trust the provider and follow their instructions closely.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Lower level drivers can support either of 2 error handling strategies.
|
|
The older one is considered obsolete while the newer one is often called
|
|
"new_eh". The advantage of "new_eh" is that it uses a separate kernel
|
|
thread per host (named "scsi_eh_<n>" where <n> is the host number) to
|
|
facilitate error recovery. Both error handling strategies were also
|
|
available in the lk 2.2 series in which very few adapter drivers used
|
|
"new_eh". In the lk 2.4 series, more
|
|
drivers are using it and the plan for the forthcoming lk 2.5 development
|
|
series is to drop mid level support for the older, obsolete error strategy.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Drew Eckhardt's SCSI-HOWTO document [see reference <link linkend="W7">W7
|
|
</link>] goes into much more detail about lower level (adapter) drivers
|
|
than this document. Since that SCSI-HOWTO is 5 years old, many things
|
|
have changed and more drivers have been added.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There is a lower level driver called <emphasis>scsi_debug</emphasis>
|
|
that simulates one or more "direct access" devices (i.e. disk(s)) using
|
|
the computer's memory. From lk 2.4.17 it acts as a "ram disk". While there
|
|
are many ram disk implementations available in Linux (e.g. ramfs),
|
|
scsi_debug may help to isolate a defective scsi driver in a problematic
|
|
installation. See <filename>scsi_debug.c</filename> for further information.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="llevelpseudo">
|
|
<title>Pseudo drivers</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
SCSI can be viewed as a command set and a set of hardware buses that convey
|
|
that command set. Those hardware buses can be further divided into those
|
|
used exclusively for SCSI (e.g. ultra wide), those shared with other
|
|
protocols (e.g. USB, IEEE 1394) and those buses not defined by the various
|
|
SCSI standards. In the final category there are several interesting examples
|
|
including ATAPI CD writers and PC parallel bus ZIP drives. Such devices
|
|
use the SCSI command set (or something very close to it) over a foreign bus.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This section briefly outlines various pseudo lower level drivers which essentially
|
|
communicate with other Linux subsystems in order to send the SCSI command set
|
|
to devices controlled by those other subsystems. This raises some ownership
|
|
issues that often confuse users and result in many questions to the
|
|
maintainers.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<formalpara><title>IDE-SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<anchor id="idescsi"/>
|
|
From configuration point of view, ide-scsi will grab and try to control
|
|
every ATA (a.k.a. IDE) device which doesn't have a "native"
|
|
driver attached (such as ide-cd, ide-tape, etc). So for example, if
|
|
both ide-cd and ide-scsi are compiled into the kernel in a system
|
|
which has an ATAPI cdrom, ide-cd will get to control it. If only
|
|
ide-scsi is compiled in, it will get the device. There are some
|
|
kernel boot time parameters to control which driver gets which device.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The preferences of the IDE subsystem can be overridden with one of these
|
|
kernel boot time parameters (of which the first is most interesting for
|
|
this subsystem):
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
hdx=ide-scsi
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
hdx=ide-cdrom
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
hdx=ide-floppy
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
[The term <emphasis>hdx</emphasis> is used
|
|
to refer to one of the IDE/ATA devices in {hda, hdb, hdc ...}.]
|
|
In the 2.4 series "hdx=scsi" was added but it is not very useful, see
|
|
see <xref linkend="sratapi"/>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When the driver is running, the device will be accessible using
|
|
the SCSI device (<filename>/dev/sda</filename>, <filename>/dev/sr0
|
|
</filename>, etc), and not through the corresponding <filename>
|
|
/dev/hdx</filename> device. Still, the <filename>/dev/hdx
|
|
</filename> device will be available, but only for configuration.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
All the generic IDE configuration parameters (DMA on/off, 32-bit
|
|
I/O, unmasking irq's, etc) are available by using the <filename>
|
|
/dev/hdx</filename> device, for example to enable DMA:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
It has been reported that in some distributions the attempt
|
|
to use the hdparm command fails. In this case use the "echo ... >
|
|
/proc/ide/hdx/settings" form.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
Using <command>cat /proc/ide/hdx/settings</command> will show the
|
|
available settings.
|
|
All the generic IDE driver settings will be available there, as well
|
|
as the following "ide-scsi specific" settings:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>bios_cyl</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>bios_head</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>bios_sect</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>transform</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>log</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
The first three choose the virtual geometry that the drive will
|
|
return to the sd driver, in case it's a disk drive (ZIP, etc).
|
|
"transform" will configure/enable/disable the SCSI to ATAPI CDB
|
|
transformation layer:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>bit 0: Enable(1)/Disable(0) transformation for
|
|
commands not originated from the sg driver.</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>bit 1: Enable/Disable transformation for commands
|
|
issued using the sg driver.</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
"log" will log debugging information. This is useful also to debug
|
|
user-space programs using the sg driver, as it will list the CDB
|
|
traffic on the bus -- each issued command, along with its completion
|
|
status.
|
|
To enable/disable a specific settings, use something like:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
echo "log:1" > /proc/ide/hdx/settings
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
To turn off the "using_dma" flag use:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
echo "using_dma:0" > /proc/ide/hdx/settings
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>PPA + IMM</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Iomega ZIP drives come in a variety of flavours including parallel
|
|
port, SCSI, and ATAPI. The parallel port versions (both old and new)
|
|
are driven by ppa and imm respectively.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The parallel port ZIP drives are actually SCSI devices which tunnel
|
|
SCSI commands over the parallel port using interfaces called VPI0
|
|
(older-style) and VPI2 (newer-style). The ppa driver is the VPI0 host
|
|
implementation and the imm driver is the VPI2 host implementation.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The way it works is that the HBA is a chip inside the ZIP drive, so
|
|
that the host adapter and the peripheral are in the same actual case.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>PPSCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The new, not-yet-integrated, architecture for devices that use SCSI
|
|
over a parallel port cable is ppscsi. The ppscsi module provides the
|
|
boiler plate code and makes it easy to write implementations for
|
|
different interfaces.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Each ppscsi protocol module registers itself with the ppscsi module,
|
|
passing in a list of entry points for the various things that are
|
|
common to all protocol drivers.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<mediaobject>
|
|
<imageobject>
|
|
<imagedata fileref="ppscsi.eps" format="EPS"/>
|
|
</imageobject>
|
|
<imageobject>
|
|
<imagedata fileref="ppscsi.jpg" format="JPG"/>
|
|
</imageobject>
|
|
<caption><para>
|
|
The structure of the PPSCSI drivers.
|
|
</para></caption>
|
|
</mediaobject>
|
|
|
|
<para>
|
|
The plan is that the ppscsi architecture will absorb both the ppa and
|
|
imm drivers and protocol modules; only vpi0 has been written so far.
|
|
See <ulink url="http://www.torque.net/parport/ppscsi.html">
|
|
<literal>www.torque.net/parport/ppscsi.html</literal></ulink>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>USB</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
USB classifies a group of devices as "mass storage" (e.g. disks) and
|
|
interacts with these using the SCSI command set. The module name is
|
|
"usb-storage".
|
|
See <ulink url="http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb">
|
|
<literal>www.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb</literal></ulink>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There is also the usb/microtek driver for controlling X6 USB scanners
|
|
from Microtek. When configured, the SANE application uses the sg
|
|
driver to send SCSI commands over USB to control this scanner.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>I2O</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
See kernel source file <filename>/usr/src/linux/drivers/i2o/io2_scsi.c
|
|
</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>IEEE 1394</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Support for IEEE 1394 devices that use the SBP-2 protocol is now
|
|
available (lk 2.4.7). See the IEEE 1394 paragraph in this
|
|
<link linkend="ieee1394">section</link> for more information.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>iSCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
An IETF draft is taking shape for iSCSI. This sends the SCSI command
|
|
set over a TCP network connection. iSCSI seems to be gaining popularity
|
|
quickly and there are several implementations for Linux taking shape.
|
|
One implementation is at
|
|
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/intel-iscsi/">
|
|
<literal>sourceforge.net/projects/intel-iscsi/</literal></ulink>.
|
|
Use your favourite search engine to find other projects.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="rawdev">
|
|
<title>Raw devices</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A raw device can be bound to an existing block device (e.g. a disk) and be
|
|
used to perform "raw" IO with that existing block device. Such "raw" IO
|
|
bypasses the caching that is normally associated with block devices.
|
|
Hence a raw device offers a more "direct" route to the physical device
|
|
and allows an application more control over the timing of IO to that
|
|
physical device. This makes raw devices suitable for complex applications
|
|
like Database Management Systems that typically do their own caching.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Raw devices are character devices (major number 162). The first
|
|
minor number (i.e. 0) is reserved as a control interface and is usually
|
|
found at <filename>/dev/rawctl</filename>. A utility called <command>raw
|
|
</command> (see <command>man raw</command>) can be used to bind a raw
|
|
device to an existing block device. These "existing block devices" may be
|
|
disks or cdroms/dvds whose underlying interface can be anything supported
|
|
by Linux (e.g. IDE/ATA or SCSI).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A sequence of commands listing the raw devices and then binding
|
|
a SCSI disk partition followed by binding the whole disk looks
|
|
like this on my system:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ ls -lR /dev/raw*
|
|
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 0 Dec 6 06:54 /dev/rawctl
|
|
|
|
/dev/raw:
|
|
total 0
|
|
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 1 Dec 6 06:54 raw1
|
|
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 2 Dec 6 06:54 raw2
|
|
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 3 Dec 6 06:54 raw3
|
|
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 162, 4 Dec 6 06:54 raw4
|
|
$
|
|
$ raw -qa
|
|
$
|
|
$ raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sda3
|
|
/dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor 3
|
|
$ raw /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/sda
|
|
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 8, minor 0
|
|
$ raw -qa
|
|
/dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor 3
|
|
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 8, minor 0
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The normal array of system calls for character devices are available on
|
|
raw devices. The size of the transfer for read(2) and write(2) must be
|
|
an integral multiple of the physical device's block size. For a disk
|
|
this will be its sector size which is normally 512 bytes. The data buffer
|
|
given to read() and write() system calls must be aligned to the block
|
|
size. The lseek(2) call needs to align its file read/write offset to a block
|
|
boundary as well. The pread(3) call (see <command>man pread</command>)
|
|
combines a read() and an lseek() and can be useful with raw devices (ditto with
|
|
pwrite() ). Care should be taken with offsets greater than 2 GB (or perhaps
|
|
4 GB) on 32 bit architectures where the "off_t" type is 32 bits long.
|
|
One solution is to use the _llseek() call (see <command>man llseek</command>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Unix utilities such as recent versions of <command>dd</command> and
|
|
<command>lmdd</command> (from the lmbench suite of programs) can be used
|
|
to move data to and from "raw" devices as they meet the above-mentioned
|
|
block alignment requirements. Recent versions of the <command>sg_dd</command>
|
|
command in the sg_utils package can access both raw and sg devices.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Also note that if the physical device has an odd number of sectors (as
|
|
shown by <command>blockdev --getsize /dev/raw/raw*</command>), the last
|
|
sector will not be accessible using raw IO.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<warning>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If a block device is being accessed via a bound raw device and also via
|
|
its normal block interface then there is no cache coherency between the
|
|
two access mechanisms. For example if <filename>/dev/sda1</filename> was
|
|
both mounted and being accessed via a bound raw device then there could be
|
|
data inconsistencies.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
<chapter id="devfs">
|
|
<title>Devfs pseudo file system</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The main documentation for devfs can be found at: reference
|
|
<link linkend="W5">W5</link>. The devfs name conventions for the
|
|
SCSI subsystem are outlined in <xref linkend="dnamesdevfs"/>.
|
|
Devfs is selected by the kernel build option CONFIG_DEVFS_FS and whether
|
|
it is mounted at boot time (as <filename>/dev</filename>) or not is
|
|
controlled by the kernel build option CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT. The latter option
|
|
can be overridden by the kernel boot time options "devfs=mount" or
|
|
"devfs=nomount", whichever is appropriate.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The devfs SCSI node names with their default permissions are:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
disc rw------- whole disk including mbr
|
|
part1 rw------- first partition {...p1}
|
|
...
|
|
part15 rw------- 15th partition {...p15}
|
|
cd rw-rw-rw- cd or dvd devices
|
|
mt rw-rw-rw- tape mode 0 with rewind {...m0}
|
|
mtl rw-rw-rw- tape mode 1 with rewind {...m1}
|
|
mtm rw-rw-rw- tape mode 2 with rewind {...m2}
|
|
mta rw-rw-rw- tape mode 3 with rewind {...m3}
|
|
mtn rw-rw-rw- tape mode 0 with no rewind {...m0n}
|
|
mtln rw-rw-rw- tape mode 1 with no rewind {...m1n}
|
|
mtmn rw-rw-rw- tape mode 2 with no rewind {...m2n}
|
|
mtan rw-rw-rw- tape mode 3 with no rewind {...m3n}
|
|
generic rw-r-----
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
These node names are only present if the corresponding device (or sub-entities
|
|
of the device (e.g. partitions)) and driver are present. For example if
|
|
there is no sg driver present then there is no "generic" device name. The
|
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strings that appear above in braces are appended to the abridged "c0b0t0u0"
|
|
notations outlined below as appropriate.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The devfs file names that are block or character special files will be
|
|
called the primary device names in this description. The devfs daemon, called
|
|
devfsd, introduces many symbolic links to those primary device names. This is
|
|
done both for backward compatibility and convenience. These symbolic links
|
|
will be called secondary device names.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The secondary device names are controlled by the devfsd configuration file
|
|
usually found in <filename>/etc/devfsd.conf</filename> . Following is a
|
|
list of secondary device names when the default devfsd.conf file is used:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
Secondary name slink to this primary device name
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
/dev/sda /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/disc
|
|
/dev/sda1 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
|
|
/dev/sd/c0b0t2u0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/disc
|
|
/dev/sd/c0b0t2u0p1 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
|
|
/dev/sr0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd
|
|
/dev/sr/c0b0t4u0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd
|
|
/dev/st0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/mt
|
|
/dev/nst0a /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/mtan
|
|
/dev/st/c1b0t0u0m0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/mt
|
|
/dev/st/c1b0t0u0m3n /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/mtan
|
|
/dev/sg0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/generic
|
|
/dev/sg1 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/generic
|
|
/dev/sg2 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic
|
|
/dev/sg/c0b0t2u0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/generic
|
|
/dev/sg/c0b0t4u0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/generic
|
|
/dev/sg/c1b0t0u0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Note that the more common <filename>/dev/scd0</filename> variant for SCSI
|
|
cdroms is not supported. There are also <filename>/dev/discs</filename>,
|
|
<filename>/dev/cdroms</filename> and <filename>/dev/tapes</filename>
|
|
directories that contain symbolic links to all devices (i.e. not just
|
|
SCSI devices) that fall into that categorization:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
Secondary name slink to this primary device
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
/dev/discs/disc0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 *
|
|
/dev/discs/disc1 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0 *
|
|
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
|
|
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd
|
|
/dev/tapes/tape0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0 *
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Those entries marked with "*" are directories containing the primary devices.
|
|
Note that IDE/ATA devices are listed before SCSI devices. These secondary device
|
|
names mimic the same persistence rules as the primary device names. So when
|
|
a SCSI device (?), or its lower level driver or its upper level driver are
|
|
removed then so are the primary and secondary device names associated with it.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When devfs is mounted as <filename>/dev</filename>, the old
|
|
"<filename>/dev/sda6</filename>" type can still be used
|
|
in some contexts. This may be convenient if typing is required at the
|
|
kernel boot time prompt. For example if a user wants to change the root
|
|
partition on a "devfs" machine then any of the following examples
|
|
may be used as a kernel boot time option:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
root=/dev/sda6
|
|
root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
|
|
root=/dev/sd/c0b0t0u0p6
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There are many device scanning programs that expect to see the pre-devfs
|
|
device names present and it will some time before they become devfs aware.
|
|
Also some programs rely on a open of <filename>/dev/sg0</filename>
|
|
(for example) to load the
|
|
sg driver (assuming it is a module and not already loaded). This can
|
|
be arranged by an entry in <filename>/etc/devfsd.conf</filename> file of:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
LOOKUP sg.* MODLOAD
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
and the following in <filename>/etc/modules.devfs</filename> :
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
probeall /dev/sg scsi-hosts sg
|
|
alias /dev/sg* /dev/sg
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The sg device permissions can be changed with this entry in the
|
|
<filename>/etc/devfsd.conf</filename> file:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
REGISTER scsi/host.*/bus.*/target.*/lun.*/generic
|
|
PERMISSIONS 0.0 rw-rw-rw-
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
See "man devfsd" for more information.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
An application can determine whether devfs is active by the presence or
|
|
otherwise of the file <filename>/dev/.devfsd</filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A feature of a /dev directory based on a persistent file system (e.g.
|
|
ext2) is the ability to associate permissions with a device file name
|
|
and keep them from one boot to the next. As noted above the default
|
|
action of devfs is to assign device file name permissions anew each time
|
|
a machine is booted. The PERMISSIONS action in the <filename>
|
|
/etc/devfsd.conf</filename> can be used to assert permissions but
|
|
this may be considered a little awkward. The devfs document
|
|
(<link linkend="W5">W5</link>) describes a method for getting the best
|
|
of both worlds. This technique relies on the recently added feature
|
|
in lk 2.4 to mount the same file system at multiple points.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</chapter>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<appendix id="scsibus">
|
|
<title>Common bus types (SCSI and other)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A very good overview of the various bus types touched on in this
|
|
appendix (both SCSI and others) can be found at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.pctechguide.com/04disk2.htm">
|
|
<literal>www.pctechguide.com/04disk2.htm</literal></ulink>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<formalpara><title>SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The original SCSI 1 standard (ANSI specification X3.131-1986) introduced
|
|
an 8 bit parallel bus that was able to do asynchronous transfers at 1.5
|
|
MegaBytes/sec and synchronous transfers up to 5 MB/sec. SCSI commands are
|
|
sent at the asynchronous rate. SCSI data is transferred either at the
|
|
asynchronous rate (worst case) or a negotiated synchronous rate (with
|
|
5 MB/sec being the best case).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>FAST SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI 2 standard raised the maximum synchronous speed to 10 MB/sec. SCSI 2
|
|
defined several parallel buses: single ended (as used by SCSI 1) and a new
|
|
differential bus. The differential bus has better noise immunity and its
|
|
maximum bus length is 25 metres (compared with single ended's 6 metres).
|
|
Tagged queuing of commands was also added by SCSI 2.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>WIDE SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI 2 standard also increased the width of the bus allowing 16 and 32 bit
|
|
"wide" variants. Very little use has been made of the 32 bit width so "wide"
|
|
usually refers to a 16 bit wide data path. The maximum number of SCSI devices
|
|
that can connect to a parallel SCSI bus is directly related to the bus width
|
|
hence "wide" buses allow a maximum of 16 SCSI devices to be connected.
|
|
[At least one of those devices must be the SCSI "initiator" which is
|
|
usually a host adapter.]
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>ULTRA SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Traditionally synchronous buses are clocked either on the rising or falling
|
|
edge of the clock (which is normally a square wave). A recent trend has been
|
|
to clock on both edges and thus double the available bandwidth. This is
|
|
how ULTRA SCSI doubles the SCSI 2 "fast" speed to 20 MB/sec.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>ULTRA WIDE SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The same "ultra" technique applied to a (16 bit) wide SCSI parallel bus yields
|
|
a bandwidth of 40 MB/sec.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>ULTRA 2 WIDE SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This variant introduces a new "low voltage" differential signalling (LVD) that
|
|
allows the synchronous clock speed to be doubled yielding 80 MB/sec when using
|
|
a (16 bit) wide bus. In this case the maximum SCSI bus length is 12 metres. To
|
|
be backward compatible with ULTRA WIDE this variant can fall back to "single
|
|
ended" operation. This leads to the abbreviation LVD/SE being used by adapter
|
|
manufacturers. One shortcoming of this approach is that the presence of one
|
|
UW device on a U2W bus will cause all other U2W devices to communicate at
|
|
the slower (i.e. UW) rate. Some adapters overcome this by having separate
|
|
LVD and SE physical buses on the same logical SCSI bus.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>ULTRA 160 SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
ULTRA 160 doubles parallel SCSI bus bandwidth yet again. It uses a 16 bit
|
|
wide data path, LVD signalling (see previous entry) and double transition
|
|
clocking that increases the maximum synchronous bandwidth to 160 MB/sec.
|
|
Additional features include cyclic redundancy codes (CRC) to improve data
|
|
integrity (compared with a parity bit) and domain validation which adjusts
|
|
transfer rates if the error rate is too high.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>ULTRA 320 SCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Shortly ULTRA 320 adapters will be available (disks with that interface
|
|
are already on the market). This is also a 16 bit wide LVD bus that can
|
|
fall back to slower speeds for compatibility with older devices. It extends
|
|
the features of Ultra 160 by doubling the clock speed. Packetized SCSI
|
|
which sends commands and status at full bus speed (rather than 5 MB/sec)
|
|
is included. Other improvements include "quick arbitration and selection",
|
|
"read and write data streaming" and CRC protection for command blocks as well
|
|
as data (Ultra 160 had CRC protection for data only). Note that adapter
|
|
cards using 64 bit PCI (or better: PCI-X) are required to stop the PCI bus
|
|
being a bottleneck at these speeds. More information can be found at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.scsita.org"><literal>www.scsita.org</literal></ulink>.
|
|
Recently an Ultra 320 HBA vendor claimed up to 105,000 IO operations
|
|
per second which implies per command SCSI bus overhead is less than 10
|
|
microseconds. There is a draft ULTRA 640 standard but that may be overtaken
|
|
by Serial Attached SCSI.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) uses the same transport technology as Serial
|
|
ATA (sATA) and extends it. [sATA is described below.] SAS can use external
|
|
expanders to control up to 16000 devices from a single HBA. The data
|
|
transfer is full duplex and 1.5 Gbps or 3.0 Gbps "phys"s can be aggregated
|
|
to increase bandwidth. Cable lengths can be up to 6 meters. SAS disks are
|
|
dual ported. sATA disks can be connected to a SAS expanders (but SAS disks
|
|
can't be connected to a sATA HBA). SAS was demonstrated at CeBit recently
|
|
but won't reach the market until 2004.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>FC-AL</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This stands for Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop and may involve dual
|
|
2 Gigabit per second single mode fibre optic links spanning 10
|
|
kilometres with throughput of up to 400 MegaBytes per second.
|
|
Often associated with storage area networks (SANs). Up to 126
|
|
devices can be attached to a loop which in turn can be extended
|
|
to 16 million devices in public loop mode. The transmission medium
|
|
isn't necessarily fibre optic cable: copper (in the form of co-axial
|
|
cable) can also be used at lower speeds and for shorter distances.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>SRP/InfiniBand</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
SRP (SCSI RDMA Protocol)
|
|
[<ulink url="http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#SCSI3_SRP">
|
|
<literal>SRP_draft</literal></ulink>] is a SCSI transport for InfiniBand
|
|
[<ulink url="http://www.infinibandta.org">
|
|
<literal>Infiniband_trade_association</literal></ulink>], a high-performance
|
|
interconnect running at 10 and 30 Gbps. SRP driver source is available at
|
|
<ulink url="http://infiniband.sourceforge.net/Storage/SRP/index.htm">
|
|
<literal>infiniband.sourceforge.net/Storage/SRP</literal></ulink> .
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>IEEE 1394</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<anchor id="ieee1394"/>
|
|
This standard also goes by the name of "Fire Wire" [trademarked
|
|
by Apple] and "iLink" [trademarked by Sony]. It is a serial bus that can run
|
|
at up to 400 Megabits/sec (IEEE 1394a). A newer standard, IEEE 1394b, ups
|
|
this to 800 Megabits/sec (with extensions to 1.6 and 3.2 Gigabits/sec) with
|
|
cable runs up to 100 metres. It has a similar but more general architecture
|
|
than USB. The IEEE 1394 standard allows for the SCSI command set to be
|
|
carried over a 1394 bus. There is a "sbp2" driver now available for
|
|
the Linux IEEE 1394 stack. This sbp2 driver is also a SCSI subsystem
|
|
lower level driver (so it is functionally similar to the ide-scsi driver).
|
|
So IEEE 1394 devices that use the SBP-2 protocol (e.g. disks, cd-rw/dvd
|
|
drives, MO drives and scanners) can be accessed via the SCSI subsystem.
|
|
See <ulink url="http://Linux1394.sourceforge.net">
|
|
<literal>Linux1394.sourceforge.net</literal></ulink> for more information.
|
|
The sbp2 driver is now in lk 2.4.7 .
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>iSCSI</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This is a new IETF standard for sending the SCSI command set over a
|
|
TCP connection (or several of them). This permits SCSI devices (targets
|
|
such as disks) to be network appliances, accessed locally (or potentially
|
|
at a great distance) by a host machine.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>NON SCSI buses</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following buses are not defined by the SCSI standards but are of interest
|
|
because they either can carry the SCSI command set, are in some way
|
|
related to the Linux SCSI subsystem or supply a similar functionality to
|
|
SCSI products.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>IDE/ATA (ATAPI)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
IDE is the most used disk type on PC systems today. The acronym stands for
|
|
Integrated Drive Electronics and as the name suggests it places the bulk
|
|
of the IO "intelligence" on the disk controller card rather than spreading
|
|
it between the device (most often a disk) and a controller (HBA) as SCSI
|
|
does. IDE grew out of the ST506 and ESDI standards in the 1980s. EIDE
|
|
(extended IDE) is a related acronym. The modern standards that refer to
|
|
this bus architecture are known as ATA and can be found at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.t13.org">
|
|
<literal>www.t13.org</literal></ulink>. The ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)
|
|
extends the disk oriented command set to support CDROM and tape drives.
|
|
The ATAPI command set closely resembles the SCSI command set. The
|
|
most recent ATA technology is outlined in the next paragraph.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>ATA 133</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The ATA standards used by IDE devices have also been marching through
|
|
the adjectives (e.g. fast and ultra) and the numbers (e.g. 2, 33,
|
|
66, 100 and 133). The most recent addition is ATA 133 which supports
|
|
burst rates of 133 MB/sec and up to 2 devices per bus. [PCs typically
|
|
have 2 and often 4 ATA buses.] ATA 66, 100 and 133 need a special cable.
|
|
ATA cables are relatively short precluding IDE devices being external to
|
|
the computer. Cable lengths have previously been limited to 18 inches
|
|
although 1 metre long cables have now appeared. Coincidently 133 MB/sec
|
|
in also the maximum throughput of the normal PCI bus found in most
|
|
PCs. The are higher speed (and wider) versions of PCI but they are
|
|
relatively rare.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>Serial ATA (sATA)</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Serial ATA uses 2 differential pairs to exchange data with a sATA
|
|
disk less than 1 metre away at 1.5 Gigabits per second. One pair takes data
|
|
to the disk and the other returns data from the disk. Data rates up to
|
|
150 Megabytes per second are possible (data transfer is half duplex).
|
|
sATA is a point to point connection, not a bus, so ATA's master and slave
|
|
strapping disappears. sATA cabling is less bulky and the form factor of
|
|
its plugs and sockets are smaller than parallel ATA (and the SCSI Parallel
|
|
interface). sATA devices are beginning to appear on the market. sATA-2
|
|
is a draft standard that doubles the serial data rate to 3 Gigabits per
|
|
second.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>USB</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Universal Serial Bus (USB) has a bandwidth of between 1.5 and 12
|
|
Megabits/sec (the latter speed with USB 1.1). Up to 127 devices can
|
|
be connected using a series of hubs each of which connects up to 7
|
|
devices (with a 5 metre limit). USB supplies 5 volts at 0.5 amps to
|
|
power small devices. USB is "plug and play", hot pluggable and supports
|
|
isochronous data transfers (required for audio and video devices that
|
|
need guaranteed minimum bandwidth).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>PC Parallel port</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The original PC parallel port was uni-directional (towards the printer)
|
|
and was capable of about 10 KB/sec. The IEEE 1284 standard in 1994
|
|
introduced 5 modes of data transfer:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>Compatibility mode (forward direction)</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>Nibble mode (reverse direction)</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>Byte mode (reverse direction)</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>EPP mode (bi-directional)</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>ECP mode (bi-directional)</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) achieves transfer speeds of between 500 KB/sec
|
|
and 2 MB/sec and is targeted at CD-ROMs, tapes and hard drives. Extended
|
|
Capability Port (ECP) includes run length encoding and support for DMA.
|
|
ECP is targeted at fast printers and scanners.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>I2O</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
"The I2O (Intelligent Input/Output) specification defines a standard
|
|
architecture for intelligent I/O that is independent of both the specific
|
|
device being controlled and the host operating system (OS)" [from <ulink
|
|
url="http://www.i2osig.org"><literal>www.i2osig.org</literal></ulink>].
|
|
It defines a "split driver" model in which the OS Services Module (OSM)
|
|
sits between the host OS device interface and the I2O communications layer
|
|
while the Hardware Device Module (HDM) sits between the I2O
|
|
communications layer and the hardware. The HDM may well run on a
|
|
dedicated processor (IOP).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
</appendix>
|
|
|
|
<appendix id="changes">
|
|
<title>Changes between lk 2.2 and (during) 2.4</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Significant work has been done to change the single SCSI command queue
|
|
used in lk 2.2 to one command queue per device. To make the SCSI subsystem
|
|
more SMP friendly the granularity of the locks is much finer grained. In
|
|
lk 2.2 the whole subsystem essentially used one lock.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Even though it is not part of the SCSI subsystem, the inclusion of devfs
|
|
solves many SCSI device addressing problems that existed in the past.
|
|
Associated with devfs but very useful even in its absence is the
|
|
"scsihosts" kernel boot time (and module load time) option. This option
|
|
allows users to have some control over the ordering of multiple SCSI hosts.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This appendix is difficult to maintain since features and drivers that
|
|
have proven useful in lk 2.4 (and its development tree) have tended to
|
|
be back ported into the higher release numbers of the lk 2.2 series.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Currently (lk 2.4.2) support for MO devices is broken. Old DOS file
|
|
systems with a block size of 2048 bytes also have been reported as broken.
|
|
The problem seems to arise with media that have a physical block size
|
|
larger than the 1 KB logical block size used by the block subsystem.
|
|
Only the sd driver has this problem (luckily not the sr driver in
|
|
which 2048 byte sectors are the norm).
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="chgml">
|
|
<title>Mid level changes</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN {ioctl, changed}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="chgsd">
|
|
<title>sd changes</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
HDIO_GETGEO_BIG {ioctl, new}
|
|
<!-- flagged _not_ added: SCSI_EMULATED_HOST {ioctl, new} -->
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="chgsr">
|
|
<title>sr changes</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
No sr changes reported. As a related matter, the "hdx=scsi" kernel boot
|
|
option has been added. See <xref linkend="sratapi"/> for more details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="chgst">
|
|
<title>st changes</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
No interface changes. In lk 2.2 the maximum number of extra tape devices
|
|
that could be added after boot time was limited to 3. This limitation
|
|
has been removed (leaving a maximum of 32 tape devices as noted earlier).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A variant st driver called "osst" to handle early model OnStream tape
|
|
drives has been added in lk 2.4 .
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="chgsg">
|
|
<title>sg changes</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The main change is the addition of a new interface structure called
|
|
"sg_io_hdr". The existing interface structure (called "sg_header") was found
|
|
to be inflexible requiring the concatenation of raw data together with
|
|
meta-data in the read() and write() commands.
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
sg_io_hdr {new interface structure}
|
|
SG_IO {new ioctl}
|
|
direct IO {present but commented out, see ALLOW_DIO}
|
|
procfs output {new information in /proc/scsi/sg directory}
|
|
boot/module parameters {new}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Up to 64 bytes of sense data can be obtained from the sg_io_hdr interface
|
|
structure. Also a residual count associated with the data transfer is
|
|
available (if the lower level driver supports it, if not the residual count
|
|
will be 0).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
<sect1 id="chg24">
|
|
<title>Changes during the lk 2.4 series</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Even though the lk 2.4 production series is meant to be "stable" there
|
|
have been a significant number of changes as well as bug fixes. The
|
|
following list does not include changes to the lower level (adapter)
|
|
drivers. Each item of the list is prefixed by the kernel version that
|
|
it was introduced.
|
|
<footnote><para>
|
|
This list has been compiled from the official 2.4 series kernels released
|
|
at <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org"> www.kernel.org</ulink>. Distributions
|
|
are free to tailor the official kernels and this may impact what is
|
|
supported (or changed) in the SCSI subsystem. For example this machine
|
|
reports this kernel: "2.4.18-27.8.0". So that is roughly based on the
|
|
official 2.4.18 kernel which the vendor has "modded" 27 times for the
|
|
"8.0" level of their distribution. As an example of the type of changes,
|
|
the aic7xxx driver in the official 2.4.18 does not support Adaptec's
|
|
Ultra 320 series of PCI adapters; however that vendor's version does.
|
|
</para></footnote>
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.4] added the SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI ioctl(),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.7] the "lun" bits (3 bits representing lun values 0 through 7
|
|
in the SCSI 1 and SCSI 2 standards) are no longer masked into the second
|
|
byte of SCSI commands if the INQUIRY for that devices shows a SCSI level
|
|
greater than SCSI_2,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.7] the max_scsi_luns kernel (and module scsi_mod) option
|
|
previously could be 1 to 7. Now the upper value can be large. [The scan
|
|
algorithms are still doing a sequential scan rather than using REPORT_LUNS.]
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.7] both scsi_unregister_host() and scsi_unregister_module() now
|
|
return an int (previously they were void functions). They return 0 for
|
|
success, -1 for failure (typically busy),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.7] the upper level drivers now report the correct scsi device
|
|
name when they are attached. [The log messages that started with
|
|
"Detected ..." previously sometimes reported the wrong device (e.g. sdc
|
|
rather than sdb).] Kernel boot up messages will now show SCSI devices
|
|
as "Attached ...",
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.7] 'max_sectors' was added to the Scsi_Host structure,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.8] some mid level logic was altered to retry commands if the
|
|
sense buffer indicates that logical unit is becoming ready [ASC=4, ASQ=1],
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.9] a major st update,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.9] mid level changed to retry
|
|
commands if lower level (adapter) driver returned DID_RESET,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.10] original result (including SCSI status) saved when mid level
|
|
issues a REQUEST SENSE so it can be restored afterwards,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.10] added BLKGETSIZE64, BLKBSZSET and BLKBSZGET ioctls to sd + sr,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.10] sg update that fixes generic_unplug_device() race + bumps
|
|
access_count on opens (and decrements on releases),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.11] added MODULE_LICENSE macro in most drivers, mostly
|
|
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.11] scsi_pid bumped for each command (why?),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.11] st update to bump access_count. Now all upper level drivers
|
|
increment access_count on opens and decrement it on releases,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.13] scatterlist structure grows (alt_address is removed, page and
|
|
offset added),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.13] don't probe luns > 7 for target <= SCSI_2 ,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.14] fine tuning (bug fixes) associated with scatterlist structure
|
|
changes [it broke st ?],
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.15] 16 byte SCSI commands permitted [MAX_COMMAND_SIZE changes from
|
|
12 to 16]. HBA driver must set Scsi_Host::max_cmd_len to 16 for
|
|
mid level to forward 16 byte SCSI commands,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.15] BLKGETSIZE + BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl() implementations moved out of
|
|
SCSI subsystem (and into block subsystem),
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.15] large st update,
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.15] lk 2.5.0 forks off so lk2.4.15==lk2.5.0 .
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.17] add generic_unplug_device() call to scsi_wait_req(). This stops
|
|
long waits in SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.17] fix device scanning bug where, in some cases, the scsi_level
|
|
(i.e. SCSI standard adherence) was misplaced.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.17] major sg driver update, add mmap()-ed IO
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.18] permit upper level driver "init()" functions (e.g. sd_init() )
|
|
to fail gracefully. [Add Scsi_Device::detected and scsi_unregister_module() .]
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.18] Fix for clustering (SCSI commands) on MO devices.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.18] st driver update (compression algorithms).
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.18] update Documentation/scsi.txt and scsi-generic.txt .
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.18] Revamp scsi_debug driver .
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.19] Scsi reservation and reset capability added. Reservations allow
|
|
multiple machines to share the same device (via a reserve/release mechanism).
|
|
Scsi reset (via sg) is needed to "break" a reservation held by a
|
|
non-responding machine.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.19] Introduce BLIST_LARGELUN to handle LUNs larger than 7 despite
|
|
reporting SCSI 2.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.19] Change sd and sr so RECOVERED_ERROR is not treated as a hard
|
|
error. Send warning to log/console.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.19] Zero out sg's buffers before use. [Sg version upgraded from
|
|
3.1.22 to 3.1.24 but this is not reflected in sg.h (supeficial).]
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.20] Support for highmem I/O added. Used by aic7xxx,
|
|
3w-xxxx, esp, megaraid, qlogicfc and sym53c8xx_2 LLDs.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.20] "blocking_open" boot time, module load time parameter added to st.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.21] Give new HBAs a new host number (higher than any previously used)
|
|
unless there is a "scsihosts" match. Host numbering sequence "holes" are
|
|
only re-used if there is a "scsihosts" match.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.21] stop the SCSI status RECOVERED ERROR being treated as an error
|
|
by the mid level (complements a change in 2.4.19).
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.21] use the TEST_UNIT_READY command (rather than START_STOP) to
|
|
determine if removable media has changed (in sd driver).
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.21] major work on ide-scsi driver.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.21] add aic79xx driver for Adaptec Ultra 320 controllers.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.22] Extend timeout of SEND DIAGNOSTIC command to 2 hours. This is
|
|
for foreground extended self tests.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.26] Add 'scsi_allow_ghost_devices' kernel boot time and scsi_mod
|
|
module option.
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>
|
|
[2.4.27] SATA support via "libata" library introduced. SATA disks appear
|
|
with SCSI subsystem names (e.g. "/dev/sdb) and respond to SCSI commands (via
|
|
a command translation facility).
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
</appendix>
|
|
|
|
<appendix id="trouble">
|
|
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Many SCSI problems are caused by cabling and (lack of, or inappropriate)
|
|
termination. This often results in repeated SCSI bus resets, parity
|
|
or CRC errors and sometimes reduced transfer speeds. There is a good
|
|
SCSI termination tutorial at this site:
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/SCSI_Termination_Tutorial.html">
|
|
www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/SCSI_Termination_Tutorial.html</ulink>. There is
|
|
other useful SCSI information at that site (see <link linkend="W9">W9</link>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There is also a SCSI "faq" site (see <link linkend="W10">W10</link>)
|
|
that addresses many configuration and troubleshooting issues. Although
|
|
the main focus of this site is Windows (and its ASPI interface), much
|
|
is relevant to SCSI in Linux and other Unix implementations.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
When it looks like something has partially locked up the system, the
|
|
<command>ps</command> command can be useful for finding out what may be
|
|
causing the problem. The following options may be useful for identifying what
|
|
part of the kernel may be causing the problem. This information could be
|
|
forwarded to the maintainers.
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
ps -eo cmd,wchan
|
|
ps -eo fname,tty,pid,stat,pcpu,wchan
|
|
ps -eo pid,stat,pcpu,nwchan,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o args
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
The most interesting option for finding the location of the "hang" is
|
|
"wchan". If this is a kernel address then <command>ps</command> will
|
|
use <filename>/proc/ksyms</filename> to find the nearest symbolic
|
|
location. The "nwchan" option outputs the numerical address of the "hang".
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If the system is not responding to keystrokes, then <Alt+ScrollLock>
|
|
in text mode should output a stack trace while <Ctrl+ScrollLock>
|
|
should output a list of all processes. If the log is still working, the
|
|
output will be sent there as well as appearing on the console.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
If the kernel has been built with the CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, then in text
|
|
mode <Alt+SysRq+H> will list available commands. Of these <Alt+SysRq+S>
|
|
is useful for doing an emergency sync while <Alt+SysRq+U> will remount
|
|
file systems in read only mode. After that <Alt+SysRq+B> to reboot the
|
|
machine might be your next move.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</appendix>
|
|
|
|
<appendix id="perform">
|
|
<title>Performance, Test and Debugging tools</title>
|
|
<formalpara><title>scu</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI Command Utility (SCU) implements various SCSI commands necessary
|
|
for normal maintenance and diagnostics of SCSI peripherals. Some of its
|
|
features include: formatting, scanning for (and reassigning) bad blocks,
|
|
downloading new firmware, executing diagnostics and obtaining
|
|
performance information. It is available on several Unix platforms
|
|
(and NT), however it is only currently available in binary form. See
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/scu.html">
|
|
www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/scu.html</ulink> for more details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>dd</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Very useful for testing the streaming performance of disks and cdroms/dvds.
|
|
See <command>man dd</command> for more details. Here is an example for
|
|
timing how long a disk takes to read 1 GB (10**9 bytes) starting from block 0:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1953126
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
If the raw device <filename>/dev/raw/raw1</filename> is bound to
|
|
<filename>/dev/sda</filename> then the above line is equivalent to:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
$ time dd if=/dev/raw/raw1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1953126
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
This may be slower than expected since one 512 byte sector is being read
|
|
at a time. Changing the last 2 arguments to "bs=8k count=122071" should
|
|
give better timings for the "raw" dd.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>dt</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The Data Test (DT) program is modelled on dd's syntax but dt can do a
|
|
lot more than sequential copies. It is a comprehensive data test program
|
|
for SCSI devices such as disks, tapes and cdrom/dvds. It is available on
|
|
several Unix platforms (and NT), and its source is available (unlike its
|
|
stable mate "scu" discussed earlier). See
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/dt.html">
|
|
www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/dt.html</ulink> for more details.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>lmdd</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This command is part of the lmbench suite of programs and is a variant of the
|
|
<command>dd</command> command. It has been tailored for IO measurements
|
|
and outputs timing and throughput numbers on completion. Hence the
|
|
<command>time</command> command and a calculator are not needed.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>blockdev</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Fetches the sector size, the number of sectors and read ahead status
|
|
of a block device (typically a disk). Can also be used to flush buffers
|
|
and reread the partition table. See <command>man blockdev</command>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>sg_dd</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This command is part of the sg_utils package (see
|
|
<link linkend="W4">W4</link>) and is another variant of the
|
|
<command>dd</command> command in which either the input and/or
|
|
output file is a sg or a raw device. The block size argument ("bs") must
|
|
match that of the physical device in question. The "skip" and "seek" arguments
|
|
can be up to 2**31 - 1 on a 32 bit architecture allowing 1TB disks to be
|
|
accessed (2G * 512). The Linux system command llseek() is used to seek with
|
|
a 64 bit file read/write offset. The <command>lmdd</command> does not
|
|
handle the > 2GB case and the <command>dd</command> command gets creative
|
|
with multiple relative seeks. <command>sg_dd</command> has
|
|
a "bpt" (blocks per transfer) argument that controls the number of blocks
|
|
read or written in each IO transaction.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
|
There are other programs in the sg_utils package to scan the SCSI bus
|
|
(<command>sg_scan</command> and <command>sg_map</command>), to measure
|
|
SCSI bus throughput (<command>sg_rbuf</command> and <command>sg_turs
|
|
</command>), show data from the SCSI inquiry command
|
|
(<command>sg_inq</command>) and spin up (or down) media
|
|
(<command>sg_start</command>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<formalpara><title>dd_rescue + scsiinfo</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This dd variant is designed to rescue damaged media such as SCSI (or IDE)
|
|
disks and CDROMs (see <link linkend="W6">W6</link>). The <command>
|
|
scsiinfo</command> utility for displaying and changing mode page
|
|
information is also at that site.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<formalpara><title>sard</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This utility is modelled on System V Release 4's <command>sar -d</command> for
|
|
producing IO statistics for mounted devices and partitions. It has been
|
|
developed by Stephen Tweedie and includes the sard utility and a required
|
|
kernel patch which expands the output of <filename>/proc/partitions</filename>
|
|
. It can be found at
|
|
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling">
|
|
ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/profiling</ulink>. It collects statistics
|
|
at a relatively low level (e.g. SCSI mid level) compared to programs
|
|
like <command>vmstat</command> (see "man vmstat").
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
</appendix>
|
|
|
|
<appendix id="compileopt">
|
|
<title>Compile options and System calls including ioctls</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The compile options in this appendix are those which a system administrator
|
|
might conceivably want to change. Naturally the defaults are chosen so the
|
|
vast majority of users will not need to modify anything. In some cases setting
|
|
kernel build time options, kernel boot time parameters or module load
|
|
parameters has the same effect as changing a driver compile time option.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
System calls act as the interface between application programs and the
|
|
kernel and its drivers. In the case of the layered driver architecture that
|
|
the SCSI subsystem uses, the upper layer drivers handle most of the
|
|
system calls.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The SCSI subsystem has a "bubble down" ioctl structure. First the upper level
|
|
driver associated with the open file descriptor attempts to decode the ioctl.
|
|
If it doesn't recognize it then the ioctl is passed down to the mid level. If
|
|
the mid level doesn't recognize it then the ioctl is passed down to the lower
|
|
level driver associated with the file descriptor. If the lower level driver
|
|
doesn't recognize it then a EINVAL error is generated.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Some ioctls are dispatched to related subsystems.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="coml">
|
|
<title>Mid level</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following header files in the kernel source are relevant to the mid
|
|
level:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi/scsi.h
|
|
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi/scsi_ioctl.h
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
These files are meant for applications to use (other than parts in
|
|
a __KERNEL__ conditional compilation block). They may also be found in
|
|
/usr/include/scsi directory but it is best not to trust these versions as
|
|
they are maintained with the glibc library and may lag the kernel version
|
|
being used. Usually in Linux systems <filename>/usr/include/linux</filename>
|
|
can be relied upon to be a symbolic link to the kernel source's include
|
|
area (typically <filename>/usr/src/linux/include/linux</filename>). This
|
|
symbolic link can be used to include the correct <filename>scsi_ioctl.h
|
|
</filename> using the following trick: <filename>
|
|
#include <linux/../scsi/scsi_ioctl.h></filename>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
This include file: <filename>/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.h</filename>
|
|
is the key internal header file for the SCSI subsystem. As such it will not
|
|
be discussed here other than to point out it has the same file name (but
|
|
it's in a different directory) as the include file mentioned at the beginning
|
|
of this section. This sometimes causes confusion.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The mid level <filename>drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c</filename> file
|
|
maintains an array of known SCSI devices with <emphasis>idiosyncrasies
|
|
</emphasis>. [This was known as the "black list" but that was considered
|
|
to judgmental.] The array is called "device_list". The various value are:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_NOLUN only probe lun 0</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_FORCELUN force all 8 luns to be probed
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_BORKEN passes through broken flag to lower
|
|
level driver</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_KEY sends magical MODE SENSE (pc=0x2e) to
|
|
unlock device</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_SINGLELUN only allow IO on one lun at a time
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_NOTQ disable tagged queuing
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_SPARSELUN keep going after lun not found
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_MAX5LUN only probe up to lun 5
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_ISDISK override INQUIRY's type with disk (direct
|
|
access) type</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>BLIST_ISROM override INQUIRY's type with ROM
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="comlco">
|
|
<title>Mid level compile options</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
None.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="comlio">
|
|
<title>Mid level ioctls</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
See the following files:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi/scsi.h
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Note that the SCSI status constants defined in include/scsi/scsi.h are
|
|
shifted 1 bit right from the values in the SCSI standards:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
scsi.h constant value SCSI 2 standard value
|
|
----------------------------------------------------
|
|
CHECK_CONDITION 0x1 0x2
|
|
CHECK_GOOD 0x2 0x4
|
|
BUSY 0x4 0x8
|
|
....
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Summary of ioctl()s follow:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
|
|
This interface is deprecated - users should use
|
|
the scsi generic (sg) interface instead, as this
|
|
is a more flexible approach to performing
|
|
generic SCSI commands on a device.
|
|
|
|
The structure that we are passed should look like:
|
|
|
|
struct sdata {
|
|
unsigned int inlen; [i] Length of data written to device
|
|
unsigned int outlen; [i] Length of data read from device
|
|
unsigned char cmd[x]; [i] SCSI command (6 <= x <= 16)
|
|
[o] Data read from device starts here
|
|
[o] On error, sense buffer starts here
|
|
unsigned char wdata[y]; [i] Data written to device starts here
|
|
};
|
|
Notes:
|
|
- The SCSI command length is determined by examining
|
|
the 1st byte of the given command. There is no way
|
|
to override this.
|
|
- Data transfers are limited to PAGE_SIZE (4K on
|
|
i386, 8K on alpha).
|
|
- The length (x + y) must be at least OMAX_SB_LEN
|
|
bytes long to accommodate the sense buffer when
|
|
an error occurs. The sense buffer is truncated to
|
|
OMAX_SB_LEN (16) bytes so that old code will not
|
|
be surprised.
|
|
- If a Unix error occurs (e.g. ENOMEM) then the user
|
|
will receive a negative return and the Unix error
|
|
code in 'errno'. If the SCSI command succeeds then
|
|
0 is returned. Positive numbers returned are the
|
|
compacted SCSI error codes (4 bytes in one int)
|
|
where the lowest byte is the SCSI status. See the
|
|
drivers/scsi/scsi.h file for more information on this.
|
|
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN
|
|
This ioctl takes a pointer to a "struct scsi_idlun" object
|
|
as its third argument. The "struct scsi_idlun" definition
|
|
is found in <scsi/scsi.h>. It gets populated with scsi
|
|
host, channel, device id and lun data for the given device.
|
|
Unfortunately that header file "hides" that structure
|
|
behind a "#ifdef __KERNEL__" block. To use this, that
|
|
structure needs to be replicated in the user's program.
|
|
Something like:
|
|
typedef struct my_scsi_idlun {
|
|
int four_in_one; /* 4 separate bytes of info
|
|
compacted into 1 int */
|
|
int host_unique_id; /* distinguishes adapter cards from
|
|
same supplier */
|
|
} My_scsi_idlun;
|
|
"four_in_one" is made up as follows:
|
|
(scsi_device_id | (lun << 8) | (channel << 16) |
|
|
(host << 24))
|
|
These 4 components are assumed (or masked) to be 1 byte each.
|
|
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER
|
|
In lk 2.2 and earlier this ioctl was needed to get the
|
|
host number. During lk 2.3 development the
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN ioctl was changed to include this
|
|
information. Hence this ioctl is only needed for
|
|
backward compatibility.
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_TAGGED_ENABLE
|
|
Probably a remnant of the past when the mid level
|
|
addressed such issues. Now this functionality is
|
|
controlled by the lower level drivers. Best ignored.
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_TAGGED_DISABLE
|
|
See comment for SCSI_IOCTL_TAGGED_ENABLE.
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_PROBE_HOST
|
|
This ioctl expects its 3rd argument to be a pointer to
|
|
a union that looks like this:
|
|
union probe_host {
|
|
unsigned int length; /* [i] max length of
|
|
output ASCII string */
|
|
char str[length]; /* [o] N.B. may need '\0'
|
|
appended */
|
|
};
|
|
The host associated with the device's fd either has a
|
|
host dependent information string or failing that its
|
|
name, output into the given structure. Note that the
|
|
output starts at the beginning of given structure
|
|
(overwriting the input length). N.B. A trailing '\0'
|
|
may need to be put on the output string if it has been
|
|
truncated by the input length. A return value of 1
|
|
indicates the host is present, 0 indicates that the
|
|
host isn't present (how can that happen?) and a
|
|
negative value indicates an error.
|
|
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_DOORLOCK
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_DOORUNLOCK
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_TEST_UNIT_READY
|
|
Returns 0 if the unit (device) is ready, a positive
|
|
number if it is not or a negative number when there
|
|
is an OS error.
|
|
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_START_UNIT
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_STOP_UNIT
|
|
SCSI_EMULATED_HOST {same as SG_EMULATED_HOST <new>}
|
|
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_PCI
|
|
Yields the PCI slot name (pci_dev::slot_name) associated with the lower
|
|
level (adapter) driver that controls the current device. Up to 8 characters
|
|
are output to the locations pointed to by 'arg'. If the current device
|
|
is not controlled by a PCI device then errno is set to ENXIO.
|
|
[This ioctl() was introduced in lk 2.4.4]
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="cosd">
|
|
<title>sd driver</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="cosdco">
|
|
<title>sd compile options</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
MAX_RETRIES {5}
|
|
SD_TIMEOUT {30 seconds}
|
|
SD_MOD_TIMEOUT {75 seconds}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="cosdio">
|
|
<title>sd ioctls and user interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The relevant files to see:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
include/linux/hdreg.h
|
|
include/linux/genhd.h
|
|
include/linux/fs.h
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
A list of ioctl()s follow:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
HDIO_GETGEO_BIG
|
|
HDIO_GETGEO [retrieve disk geometry]
|
|
BLKGETSIZE [number of sectors in device]
|
|
BLKROSET [set read only flag]
|
|
BLKROGET [get read only flag]
|
|
BLKRASET [set read ahead value]
|
|
BLKRAGET [get read ahead value]
|
|
BLKFLSBUF [instructs SCSI subsystem to flush buffers]
|
|
BLKSSZGET [get device block size]
|
|
BLKPG [partition table manipulation]
|
|
BLKELVGET [get elevator parameters]
|
|
BLKELVSET [set elevator parameters]
|
|
BLKRRPART [reread the partition table]
|
|
|
|
open() (all flags ignored)
|
|
close()
|
|
ioctl() (see list above)
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="cosr">
|
|
<title>sr driver</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="cosrco">
|
|
<title>sr compile options</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
None.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="cosrio">
|
|
<title>sr ioctls and user interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
See the following files:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/cdrom.h
|
|
/usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c [revision history section]
|
|
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom/cdrom-standard.tex
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Some of the following ioctls are described in cdrom-standard.tex :
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
CDROMCLOSETRAY
|
|
CDROM_SET_OPTIONS
|
|
CDROM_CLEAR_OPTIONS
|
|
CDROM_SELECT_SPEED
|
|
CDROM_SELECT_DISC
|
|
CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED
|
|
CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS
|
|
CDROM_CHANGER_NSLOTS
|
|
CDROM_LOCKDOOR
|
|
CDROM_DEBUG
|
|
CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY
|
|
DVD_READ_STRUCT
|
|
DVD_WRITE_STRUCT
|
|
DVD_AUTH
|
|
CDROM_SEND_PACKET
|
|
CDROM_NEXT_WRITABLE
|
|
CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The O_NONBLOCK flag on the open() of scd devices is important. Without it the
|
|
open() will wait until there is media in the device before returning.
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
open() O_NONBLOCK
|
|
close()
|
|
read()
|
|
write()
|
|
ioctl()
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="cost">
|
|
<title>st driver</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="costco">
|
|
<title>st compile options</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Most of the following compile options can be overridden with
|
|
boot/module parameters and/or runtime configuration (i.e. ioctls).
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following parameters are defined in linux/drivers/scsi/st_options.h
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
ST_NOWAIT {0}
|
|
ST_IN_FILE_POS {0}
|
|
ST_RECOVERED_WRITE_FATAL {0}
|
|
ST_DEFAULT_BLOCK {0}
|
|
ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS {32}
|
|
ST_WRITE_THRESHOLD_BLOCKS {30}
|
|
ST_MAX_BUFFERS {4}
|
|
ST_MAX_SG {16}
|
|
ST_FIRST_SG {8}
|
|
ST_FIRST_ORDER {5}
|
|
ST_TWO_FM {0}
|
|
ST_BUFFER_WRITES {1}
|
|
ST_ASYNC_WRITES {1}
|
|
ST_READ_AHEAD {1}
|
|
ST_AUTO_LOCK {0}
|
|
ST_FAST_MTEOM {0}
|
|
ST_SCSI2LOGICAL {0}
|
|
ST_SYSV {0}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following parameters are defined in linux/drivers/scsi/st.c
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
ST_TIMEOUT {900*HZ}
|
|
ST_LONG_TIMEOUT {14000*HZ}
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="costio">
|
|
<title>st ioctls and user interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The Linux tape interface is defined in
|
|
<filename>/usr/src/linux/include/linux/mtio.h </filename>.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following ioctl()s are listed in alphabetical order with a brief
|
|
explanation to the right. [See st documentation (especially
|
|
<command>man 4 st</command>) for more details.]
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
MTIOCTOP [execute tape commands and set drive/driver options]
|
|
MTIOCGET [get the status of the drive]
|
|
MTIOCPOS [get the current tape location]
|
|
|
|
open() O_RDONLY, O_RDWR
|
|
close()
|
|
read()
|
|
write()
|
|
ioctl()
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
</sect1>
|
|
|
|
<sect1 id="cosg">
|
|
<title>sg driver</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following header files in the kernel source are relevant to the sg driver:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi/sg.h
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
As pointed out in <xref linkend="coml"/> this is best included in
|
|
applications by using:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
#include <linux/../scsi/sg.h>
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="cosgco">
|
|
<title>sg compile options</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Here are some defines from the sg.h file that the user could conceivably want
|
|
to change. The current default values are shown in braces on the right:
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
SG_SCATTER_SZ {32768}
|
|
SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE {SG_SCATTER_SZ}
|
|
SG_DEF_FORCE_LOW_DMA {0}
|
|
SG_DEF_FORCE_PACK_ID {0}
|
|
SG_DEF_KEP_ORPHAN {0}
|
|
SG_MAX_QUEUE {16}
|
|
SG_DEFAULT_RETRIES {1} # i.e. don't retry
|
|
SG_BIG_BUFF {SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE}
|
|
SG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT {60 seconds}
|
|
SG_DEF_COMMAND_Q {0 *}
|
|
SG_DEF_UNDERRUN_FLAG {0}
|
|
|
|
* The per file descriptor copy of this flips to 1 (thus
|
|
allowing command queuing) as soon as a write() based
|
|
on the newer sg_io_hdr structure is detected.
|
|
</programlisting>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</sect2>
|
|
|
|
<sect2 id="cosgio">
|
|
<title>sg ioctls and user interface</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following ioctl()s are listed in alphabetical order with a brief
|
|
explanation to the right. [See sg documentation for more details.]
|
|
<programlisting>
|
|
|
|
SG_EMULATED_HOST [indicate if adapter is ide-scsi]
|
|
SG_GET_COMMAND_Q [command queuing flag state]
|
|
SG_GET_KEEP_ORPHAN [interrupted SG_IO keep orphan flag state]
|
|
SG_GET_LOW_DMA ["low dma flag" (<= 16 MB on i386) state]
|
|
SG_GET_NUM_WAITING [number of responses waiting to be read()]
|
|
SG_GET_PACK_ID [pack_id of next to read() response
|
|
(-1 if none)]
|
|
SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE [yields array of requests being processed]
|
|
SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE [current size of reserved buffer]
|
|
SG_GET_SCSI_ID [a little more info than the mid level's
|
|
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN ioctl]
|
|
SG_GET_SG_TABLESIZE [max entries in host's scatter gather table]
|
|
SG_GET_TIMEOUT [yields timeout (unit: jiffies
|
|
(10ms on i386))]
|
|
SG_GET_TRANSFORM [state of ide-scsi's transform flag]
|
|
SG_IO [send given SCSI command and wait for
|
|
response]
|
|
SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN [change command length of next command]
|
|
SG_SCSI_RESET [send a SCSI bus, device or host reset]
|
|
SG_SET_COMMAND_Q [set command queuing state {old=0, new=1}]
|
|
SG_SET_DEBUG [set debug level {0}]
|
|
SG_SET_KEEP_ORPHAN [set SG_IO's keep orphan flag {0}]
|
|
SG_SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA [force DMA buffer low (<= 16 MB on i386)
|
|
{0}]
|
|
SG_SET_FORCE_PACK_ID [so read() can fetch by pack_id {0}]
|
|
SG_SET_RESERVED_SIZE [change default buffer size
|
|
{SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE}]
|
|
SG_SET_TIMEOUT [change current timeout {60 secs} ]
|
|
SG_SET_TRANSFORM [set ide-scsi's ATAPI transform flag {0}]
|
|
|
|
open() [recognized oflags: O_RDONLY, O_RDWR, O_EXCL,
|
|
O_NONBLOCK]
|
|
close()
|
|
read()
|
|
write()
|
|
ioctl()
|
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poll() [used when in O_NONBLOCK mode]
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fasync() [enables generation of SIGIO signal for read()]
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</appendix>
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<appendix id="refs">
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<title>References, Credits and Corrections</title>
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<formalpara><title>WEB</title>
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<para>
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The following references are found on the web. Please alert the author
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if any of these links become stale.
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</para>
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</formalpara>
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<para>
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<anchor id="W1"/>
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[W1] SCSI (draft) standards, resources:
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<ulink url="http://www.t10.org"><literal>www.t10.org</literal></ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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<anchor id="W2"/>
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[W2] Eric Youngdale is the chief architect of the Linux SCSI subsystem:
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<ulink url="http://www.andante.org/scsi.html">
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<literal>www.andante.org/scsi.html</literal></ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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<anchor id="W4"/>
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[W4] The author's scsi generic (sg) site is:
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<ulink url="http://www.torque.net/sg">
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<literal>www.torque.net/sg</literal></ulink>.
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The Linux Documentation Project's site includes the
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<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/">
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<literal>www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/</literal></ulink> .
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A (possibly later) version of that document can be found at
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<ulink url="http://www.torque.net/sg/p/sg_v3_ho">
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<literal>www.torque.net/sg/p/sg_v3_ho</literal></ulink> .
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The sg_utils and sg3_utils packages, as tarballs and as binary and source
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rpms can also be found on this page. These packages and others available
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for the sg driver are discussed at
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<ulink url="http://www.torque.net/sg/u_index.html">
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<literal>www.torque.net/sg/u_index.html</literal></ulink>.
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</para>
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<para>
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<anchor id="W5"/>
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[W5] Richard Gooch's devfs site:
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<ulink url="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html">
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<literal>www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html</literal></ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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<anchor id="W6"/>
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[W6] Kurt Garloff's site (including the <command>scsidev</command>
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and the <command>scsiinfo</command> utilities):
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<ulink url="http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/">
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<literal>www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/</literal></ulink>. Kurt also has
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the damaged media rescue program <command>dd_rescue</command> at this site:
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<ulink url="http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue">
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<literal>www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue</literal></ulink>
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</para>
|
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<para>
|
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<anchor id="W7"/>
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[W7] Drew Eckhardt's SCSI-HOWTO from 1996 (in ASCII):
|
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<ulink url=
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"http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/SCSI-HOWTO">
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<literal>metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/SCSI-HOWTO
|
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</literal></ulink>
|
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</para>
|
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<para>
|
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<anchor id="W8"/>
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[W8] Linux Documentation Project (LDP):
|
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<ulink url="http://tldp.org">
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<literal>tldp.org</literal></ulink>
|
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</para>
|
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<para>
|
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<anchor id="W9"/>
|
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[W9] SCSI Trade Association site has a lot of useful information:
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.scsita.org">
|
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<literal>www.scsita.org</literal></ulink>
|
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</para>
|
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<para>
|
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<anchor id="W10"/>
|
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[W10] SCSI FAQ site - useful source of information and links:
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.scsifaq.org">
|
|
<literal>www.scsifaq.org</literal></ulink>
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>NEWSGROUPS</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The following entries are actually reflectors rather than newsgroups.
|
|
Various web locations archive their contents (e.g.
|
|
<ulink url="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com"><literal>marc.theaimsgroup.com</literal></ulink>).
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
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<anchor id="N1"/>
|
|
[N1] Linux SCSI reflector: <email> linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org </email>.
|
|
This is a relatively low volume (circa 200 postings per month) Linux
|
|
SCSI specific group that many of the SCSI subsystem maintainers
|
|
monitor.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<anchor id="N2"/>
|
|
[N2] Linux kernel reflector: <email> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org </email>.
|
|
This is a relatively high volume (circa 5000 postings per month) group
|
|
for all aspects of the Linux kernel. The Linux SCSI reflector should
|
|
be tried first.
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</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>BOOKS</title>
|
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<para>
|
|
Here are some books that the author found useful.
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
<para>
|
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<anchor id="B1"/>
|
|
[B1] "Linux Device Drivers" Second edition by Alessandro Rubini
|
|
and Jonathan Corbet [O'Reilly 2001 ISBN 0-596-00008-1]
|
|
This is a solid text on Linux device drivers including some information
|
|
on the SCSI subsystem. It covers the block subsystem well and has
|
|
many char device driver examples. It has been updated for the Linux
|
|
2.4 series kernels and also includes information on the Linux 2.2 and 2.0
|
|
series. This book is highly recommended.
|
|
The authors
|
|
and the publisher have unselfishly made this book available under the GNU
|
|
Free Documentation License (version 1.1). It can be found in html at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book">
|
|
<literal>www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book</literal></ulink> .
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<anchor id="B2"/>
|
|
[B2] "Running Linux" 3rd edition by M. Welsh, M. K. Dalheimer & L. Kaufman
|
|
[O'Reilly 1999 ISBN 1-56592-469-X]
|
|
This is a classic Linux tome which includes some SCSI configuration info.
|
|
</para>
|
|
<para>
|
|
<anchor id="B3"/>
|
|
[B3] "The Programmer's Guide to SCSI" by Brian Sawert [Addison Wesley 1998
|
|
ISBN 0-201-18538-5]
|
|
This book covers many SCSI topics, including the pass through mechanisms
|
|
of Linux (sg) and ASPI/ASPI32 as used by Windows.
|
|
</para>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>CREDITS</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
The author is grateful for the following contributions:
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem><para>Kai Mäkisara (st) <email>Kai.Makisara at metla
|
|
dot fi</email>
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>Jens Axboe (sr) <email>axboe at suse dot de</email>
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>Richard Gooch (devfs) <email>rgooch at atnf dot csiro
|
|
dot au</email>
|
|
</para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>Tim Waugh (ppa, imm, ppscsi + docbook)
|
|
<email>twaugh at redhat dot com</email> </para></listitem>
|
|
<listitem><para>Gadi Oxman (ide-scsi)
|
|
<email>gadio at netvision dot net dot il</email> </para></listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
|
<formalpara><title>CORRECTIONS and SUGGESTIONS</title>
|
|
<para>
|
|
Please send any corrections or suggestions to the author at
|
|
<email>dgilbert at interlog dot com</email> or <email>dougg at torque
|
|
dot net</email> .
|
|
</para>
|
|
</formalpara>
|
|
|
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</appendix>
|
|
</book>
|
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