scsi(4) [ultrix man page]
SCSI(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual SCSI(4) Name SCSI - Small Computer System Interconnect Description The ULTRIX system interfaces to disk and tape devices through the Small Computer System Interconnect (SCSI). Initial ULTRIX SCSI support is limited to the Digital-supplied mass storage devices. The following devices are fully supported on the ULTRIX system: o Winchester disks: RZ22, RZ23, RZ23L, RZ24, RZ55, RZ56, RZ57, RX23, RX26, RX33 o Magnetic tapes: TZ30, TZK50, TLZ04, TSZ05, TKZ08, TZK10 o Optical disks: RRD40, RRD42 Under the ULTRIX operating system, a SCSI device is referred to by its logical name. Logical names take the following form: nn# The nn argument is the two-character name; the number sign (#) represents the unit number. The two character names for SCSI devices are: rz - RZ22, RZ23, RZ23L, RZ24, RZ55, RZ56, RZ57, RX23, RX26, RX33, RRD40, RRD42 disks tz - TZ30, TZK50, TLZ04, TSZ05, TKZ08, and TZK10 tapes The unit number is a combination of the SCSI bus number, either 0, 1, ... and the device's target ID number. The unit number is eight times the bus number plus the target ID. For example, an RZ23 disk at target ID 3 on bus 0 would be referred to as rz3; a TZK50 tape at target ID 5 on the second SCSI bus would be referred to as 13. The SCSI bus has eight possible target device IDs. By default, one is allocated to the system. This allows for a maximum of seven target devices connected to a SCSI bus. Restrictions The ULTRIX SCSI device driver does not operate with optical disks, other than the Digital-supplied devices. The SCSI driver attempts to support on a best effort basis, non-Digital-supplied winchester disks and magnetic tapes. The following notes apply to the driver's handling of non-Digital-supplied disks: o These disks are assigned a device type of RZxx, instead of RZ22, RZ23, RZ23L, RZ55, RZ56, RZ57, RX23, RX26, or RX33. The RZxx disks follow the same logical device naming scheme as the Digital-supplied disks. o During the autoconfigure phase of the system startup, the driver prints the contents of the SCSI vendor ID, product ID, and the revision level fields of the inquiry data return by the SCSI device. o RZxx disks are assigned a default partition table. The default table can be modified by editing the sz_rzxx_sizes[8] entry in the file The utility can also be used to modify the partition table on a RZxx disk. o The only logical unit number (LUN) supported for each target ID is 0. See Also rz(4), tz(4), chpt(8) SCSI(4)
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atapi_ide(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual atapi_ide(7) NAME
atapi_ide - Interface for ATAPI or IDE (PC) devices SYNOPSIS
PCI bus CMD/Acer ATAPI/IDE adapter: bus pci0 at * bus ata0 at * controller scsi0 at ata0 slot 0 controller scsi1 at ata0 slot 1 PCI bus Cypress ATAPI/IDE adapter: bus pci0 at * bus ata0 at * bus ata1 at * controller scsi0 at ata0 slot 0 controller scsi1 at ata1 slot 0 PCMCIA bus ATA/IDE disk card: bus pcmcia0 at * bus ata0 at pcmcia? controller scsi0 at ata0 DESCRIPTION
Devices commonly known for their use on PC devices as ATA or IDE devices are supported using the SCSI CAM device driver. The ATA standard has also been expanded to include what are known as ATAPI devices. The SCSI CAM device driver is also used for those disks and CD-ROM devices. These devices may also be known under the names EIDE, ATA-2, Fast-ATA, or Ultra-ATA. Beacuse the ATA/IDE standard was not developed until after many of the devices that used this standard were produced, there are many devices which do not strictly comply with the standard. While it is possible some industry standard devices may appear to work, it is also possible they will cause hang or data corruption cases when used under more stressful situations. For this reason, it is recommended that only the supported devices be used. These devices have been tested and are certified for correct operation. ATAPI/IDE controllers allow the connection of two devices. These two devices are known as the master device and the slave device. If only one device is connected, that device must be the master (slave-only configurations are not supported). When used by the SCSI CAM device driver, the IDE master device is assigned SCSI id 0 for that controller. The slave device is assigned SCSI id 1 for that controller. No other SCSI ids are assigned on that controller. Most ATAPI/IDE adapters contain two channels (known as the primary and secondary). Each of these channels may contain their own master and slave devices. Therefore, a dual channel ATAPI/IDE controller may contain up to 4 devices (a master and slave pair on each channel). These 4 devices are then accessed as SCSI id 0 and 1 on each channel. Many SCSI operations translate perfectly for use on IDE. For example, read and write operations are the same. However, many SCSI disk mode pages are emulated by the IDE device driver. For example, you can display the SCSI inquiry mode pages using the following command: % scu show inq pages pages are created by the device driver to contain the long (full IDE) form of the device name, serial number, revision, and the operational modes of the device. Only a shortened version of this information is available with the standard SCSI inquiry command. Note also that the following command: % scu show pages Shows that the SCSI mode pages contain only partial information. Only that informa- tion (such as geometry) that the drive reports to the system is able to be reformatted into these emulated SCSI mode pages. Much of the information (such as RPM) is simply not available from the drive, and therefore not accurately reported. ATAPI devices are much more closely related to SCSI devices, and as such contain their own mode pages. Therefore, for these devices, the mode page values reported are those from the device, and no emulation is involved. ATAPI tape devices are not supported at this time. FILES
/dev/disk/dsk??? /dev/disk/dsk??? RELATED INFORMATION
SCSI(7), rz(7), and disklabel(8) delim off atapi_ide(7)