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ioctl(D2sdi)


ioctl -- send Host Bus Adapter pass-through commands

Synopsis

See ioctl(D2) for synopsis and general usage information about this entry point.

Description

ioctl(D2sdi) is used for pass-through access with (HBAs). After pass-through access has been established with the HBA device through open(D2sdi), the HBA pass-through ioctl(D2sdi) routine is used to send commands to the device.

Usage

At minimum, ioctl should understand the following command types:

B_GETTYPE
get the HBA driver type information

HA_VER
get the HBA driver version number

SDI_BRESET
reset the SCSI bus or the controller

SDI_SEND
send the SCSI command, supplied in arg, to the requested device

Context and synchronization

User context. The driver can block and can do operations such as copyout(D3) that require access to the requesting process's user-level address space.

Applicable hardware

All

Version applicability

sdi: 1, 2, 3, 4 HBA drivers.

See Also

close(D2sdi), ioctl(D2), open(D2sdi)

``SDI pass-through interface'' in HDK Technical Reference


19 June 2005
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OpenServer 6 and UnixWare (SVR5) HDK - June 2005