scsiha(1m)
scsiha - probe and control scsi buses
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NAME scsiha - probe and control scsi buses SYNOPSIS scsiha [-flpPrtTws] [-D debuglevel] [-L targetID|all] [-S targetID|all] {bus_number | device} ... DESCRIPTION scsiha is used to perform operations on fibrechannel loops of SCSI devices and parallel SCSI buses. The following options apply to both parallel SCSI and fibrechannel SCSI: -p Probe for devices on the bus or loop. On parallel SCSI buses, this option causes the driver to look for devices at every ID on the SCSI bus. On fibrechannel SCSI loops, this option causes the driver to look for devices at every ID that was reported in use at the most recent loop initialization. On parallel SCSI buses, when a device is found at lun 0, all other luns are then probed. When devices or luns are not valid, a warning message may be printed on the console. With fibrechannel, the Report Luns SCSI command is used to determine which LUNs are valid. If the Report Luns command returns error, only LUN 0 is assumed to be valid. After probing, new devices will have a controller number of "-1" until ioconfig -f /hw is run to update the hardware graph. -r Perform a SCSI bus reset and/or reset host adapter. This affects all devices on that SCSI bus, causing current commands to be aborted, and specially set parameters to be reset, in many cases. Tape drive state will be reset after this, and any tape operations in progress will be aborted. This option should therefore be used with some caution. In very rare cases, it may cause a device to become unusable without a powercycle. There are times when it is desired to reset devices or adapters that appear to be hung, however, so this function is provided. Some host adapter drivers will reset the adapter as part of this ioctl. Fibrechannel adapters will perform loop initialization, making this operation similar to the -l option, except that the adapter will also be reset. -D debuglevel Set the debug level in the host adapter driver. Where supported, this option changes the verbosity of a given host adapter driver. In general, 0 is least verbose, with no specific upward limit. The following option only applies to some parallel SCSI adapters: -t Return interesting SCSI bus and attached target parameters. Bus parameters include whether the bus is single-ended or differential, the SCSI host ID and the selection timeout. The target parameters include whether the device is capable of operating in narrow or wide mode, whether it's capable of doing synchronous transfer and if so, what the period and offset is. The following options only apply to fibrechannel SCSI adapters: -f Display the firmware version running in the fibrechannel adapter. -l Perform loop initialization. During loop initialization, all devices on the loop will attempt to acquire a target ID. SGI devices will attempt to get the ID they have been selected for, either by settings on and position within an enclosure, or by dials/switches on the device. If multiple devices have the same ID selection, only one device will get that ID. Other devices will attempt to acquire IDs not in already in use. This option may have a side effect of aborting current commands outstanding on the adapter, so it should be used with care. The disk driver will typically reissue the aborted commands, but there will be a performance impact while commands are reissued. -L targetID Send LIPRST to the specified device and then perform loop initialization. This option is much like -l above, except that it also requests that the device resets itself. Not all devices will honor the request. RAID controllers typically don't while disk drives typically do. This option can be used in rare cases where a device is not functioning properly, but is still able to complete loop initialization and acquire a target ID. For example, if a drive gets timeouts on attempts to probe (using the -p option above), then this option may bring it back to working condition. In this respect, the -L option can be used for reasons similar to -r on parallel SCSI buses. -L all This option is like the -L option directly above, except that it directs all devices to reset themselves. Only devices that implement FC-AL-2 or later will respond to this. This option can be used if a loop is malfunctioning, and it is suspected that one or more devices may be causing the malfunction, but it isn't known which. RAID controllers typically don't honor the "self-reset" function of the LIPRST The -L options may have a side effect of aborting current commands outstanding on the adapter, and it if the device honors the reset function, outstanding commands to it will be dropped. The disk driver will typically reissue the aborted commands, but there will be a performance impact while commands are reissued and while a device resets. -P Display the currently negotiated port speed of the fibrechannel adapter. -T Display a listing of targets connected to the fibrechannel adapter. -w This option will print the portname (sometimes known as the World Wide Name) of the fibrechannel adapter. -s This option will print the link error statistics of the fibrechannel adapter. The link error statistics will be displayed with an asterix before adapter loop id (in case of loop topology) or before the adapter portname (in case of fabric topology). -S targetID This option will print the link error statistics of the specified fibrechannel target. The target ID can be either unit number (in case of loop topology) or nodename (in case of fabric topology). -S all This option will the print link error statistics of the fibrechannel adapter and all the targets connected to it. EXAMPLES To reset parallel scsi bus 2, use one of these commands: scsiha -r 2 scsiha -r /hw/scsi_ctlr/2/bus To probe scsi bus 0, use one of these commands: scsiha -p 0 scsiha -p /hw/scsi_ctlr/0/bus To reset target 8 and then perform loop initialization on fibrechannel bus 6, do the following: scsiha -L 8 6 scsiha -L 8 /hw/scsi_ctlr/6/bus FILES /hw/scsi_ctlr/*/bus the scsi bus operation devices SEE ALSO ioconfig(1M), scsicontrol(1M), scsiha(7M). NOTE This command is normally usable only by the superuser, because the standard permissions of the devices in /hw/scsi_ctlr/* restrict access to other users. With fibrechannel adapters, if a loop is broken after a system has been operational, numerous attempts will be made to reinitialize the loop, after which the host adapter driver will give up on the loop. At this point, if the hardware condition causing the broken loop is fixed (box of drives powered back on, cable reinserted, etc.), the -r option should be used to re-establish loop operation. The source to this program is also shipped as sample source code in the irix_dev.gifts.scsi subsystem as part of IDO. The Performance Co-Pilot (see PCP(1)) may be used to monitor SCSI devices, however configuration changes by scsiha may not be asynchronously detected. If SCSI devices are being monitored, libirixpmda(5) may be notified and forced to reset using the command: > pmstore irix.xbow.switch 1