SCSI(2)

NAME

openscsi, scsiready, scsi, scsicmd, scsierror − SCSI device operations

SYNOPSIS

#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <disk.h>

typedef struct Scsi {
char ∗inquire;
int rawfd;
int nchange;
ulong changetime;
};

Scsi∗ openscsi(char ∗devdir)

void closescsi(Scsi ∗s)

int scsiready(Scsi ∗s)

int scsi(Scsi ∗s, uchar ∗cmd, int ncmd,
void ∗data, int ndata, int dir)

int scsicmd(Scsi ∗s, uchar ∗cmd, int ncmd,
void ∗data, int ndata, int dir)

char∗ scsierror(int asc, int ascq)

int scsiverbose;

DESCRIPTION

These routines provide an interface to a SCSI or ATAPI device via sd(3).

Openscsi attempts to open the file devdir/raw and use it to send raw SCSI commands. On success, it reads the device’s inquiry string and stores it in in returned Scsi structure. Closescsi closes the connection and frees the Scsi structure.

Scsiready sends the “unit ready” command up to three times, returning zero if the unit responds that it is ready, or −1 on error.

Scsierror returns a textual description of the SCSI status denoted by the ASC and ASCQ sense codes. The description is found by consulting /sys/lib/scsicodes. The returned string will be overwritten by the next call to scsierror.

Scsi and scsicmd execute a single SCSI command on the named device. There should be ncmd bytes of command data in cmd; if dir is Sread, a successful operation will store up to ndata bytes into data, returning the number of bytes stored. If dir is Swrite, the ndata bytes beginning at data are transmitted as the data argument to the command, and the number of bytes written is returned. If dir is Snone, data and ndata are ignored. On error, scsi and scsicmd return −1. Scsicmd simply issues the command and returns the result; scsi works a bit harder and is the more commonly used routine. Scsi attempts to send the command; if it is successful, scsi returns what scsicmd returned. Otherwise, scsi sends a request sense command to obtain the reason for the failure, sends a unit ready command in an attempt to bring the unit out of any inconsistent states, and tries again. If the second try fails, scsi sends the request sense and unit ready commands again and then uses scsierror to set errstr with a reason for failure.

The nchange and changetime fields in the Scsi structure record the number of times a media change has been detected, and the time when the current media was inserted into the drive (really the first time a SCSI command was issued after it was inserted). They are maintained by scsi.

If scsiverbose is set, these commands will produce a fair amount of debugging output on file descriptor 2 when SCSI commands fail.

FILES

/sys/lib/scsicodes
List of textual messages corresponding to SCSI error codes; consulted by scsierror.

SOURCE

/sys/src/libdisk/scsi.c

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