adsa(7)
adsa --
Adaptec AIC-7770 family SCSI host adapter subsystem
Description
The Adaptec AIC-7770 family host adapter driver provides a Storage
Device
Interface (SDI)-compliant interface to any Adaptec Host Adapters based on
the Adaptec AIC-7770 family of SCSI controller chips.
These devices include AHA-2740/2742,
AHA-2740-T/2742-T, and any motherboard implementations using the
AIC-7770 SCSI chip.
The Adaptec AIC-7770 family host adapter driver enables SDI-compliant target
drivers (such as sd01 and st01) to communicate
on the SCSI bus with target controllers and logical units.
This allows normal access to mass-storage devices using standard system
interfaces and filesystems.
It is also possible for an application to access the SCSI bus
subsystem directly by using the pass-through interface.
See
pt_open(3X).
NOTE:
Adaptec SCSI controllers cannot be used reliably with Emulex
SCSI/ESDI bridge controllers (also known as AT&T DCM/4E).
This is due to hardware-induced timing differences between these bridge
controllers and any SCSI controllers other than the one that they were
designed to be used with.
It is not possible to provide a software solution to this problem.
Exercise extreme caution when using
the pass-through interface.
It is possible to interfere with normal system I/O and cause hangs if
pass-through is used to an active device.
Pass-through should only be used to a device that is otherwise quiescent.
Files
/usr/include/sys/adsa.h-
/usr/include/sys/scsi.h-
/usr/include/sys/sdi.h-
/usr/include/sys/sdi_edt.h-
/usr/include/sys/sdi_comm.h-
/etc/conf/pack.d/adsa/space.c-
References
adsc(7),
adse(7),
adss(7),
dpt(7),
ioctl(2),
mcis(7),
sc01(7),
sd01(7),
sdi(7),
st01(7),
sw01(7),
wd7000(7)
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 25 April 2004