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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/BusLogic.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas | 47 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/Mylex.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt | 107 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/osst.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/ppa.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt | 139 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/st.txt | 15 |
18 files changed, 327 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/BusLogic.txt b/Documentation/scsi/BusLogic.txt index 98023baa0f0..d7fbc9488b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/BusLogic.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/BusLogic.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ tune driver performance and error recovery to their particular needs. The latest information on Linux support for BusLogic SCSI Host Adapters, as well as the most recent release of this driver and the latest firmware for the BT-948/958/958D, will always be available from my Linux Home Page at URL -"http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/". +"http://sourceforge.net/projects/dandelion/". Bug reports should be sent via electronic mail to "lnz@dandelion.com". Please include with the bug report the complete configuration messages reported by the diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc index e759e92e286..337c924cc81 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ Changes from 20040908 to 20040920 lpfc_disc_done/lpfc_do_dpc cleanup - lpfc_disc_done can return void - move lpfc_do_dpc and lpfc_disc_done to lpfc_hbadisc.c - remove checking of list emptiness before calling lpfc_disc_done, - it handles the emtpy list case just fine and the additional + it handles the empty list case just fine and the additional instructions cost less then the bustlocked spinlock operations. * Integrated patch from Christoph Hellwig: This adds a new 64bit counter instead, brd_no isn't reused anymore. Also some tiny diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid index 38e9e7cadc9..5e07d320817 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Older Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module) 3. Convert pci_module_init to pci_register_driver Convert from pci_module_init to pci_register_driver - (from:http://kerneljanitors.org/TODO) + (from:http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/TODO) - Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> 4. Use the pre defined DMA mask constants from dma-mapping.h diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas index 30023568805..00301ed9c37 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas @@ -1,3 +1,50 @@ +1 Release Date : Thur. May 03, 2010 09:12:45 PST 2009 - + (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com) + Bo Yang + +2 Current Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1 +3 Older Version : 00.00.04.17.1-rc1 + +1. Add the Online Controller Reset (OCR) to the Driver. + OCR is the new feature for megaraid_sas driver which + will allow the fw to do the chip reset which will not + affact the OS behavious. + + To add the OCR support, driver need to do: + a). reset the controller chips -- Xscale and Gen2 which + will change the function calls and add the reset function + related to this two chips. + + b). during the reset, driver will store the pending cmds + which not returned by FW to driver's pending queue. Driver + will re-issue those pending cmds again to FW after the OCR + finished. + + c). In driver's timeout routine, driver will report to + OS as reset. Also driver's queue routine will block the + cmds until the OCR finished. + + d). in Driver's ISR routine, if driver get the FW state as + state change, FW in Failure status and FW support online controller + reset (OCR), driver will start to do the controller reset. + + e). In driver's IOCTL routine, the application cmds will wait for the + OCR to finish, then issue the cmds to FW. + + f). Before driver kill adapter, driver will do last chance of + OCR to see if driver can bring back the FW. + +2. Add the support update flag to the driver to tell LSI megaraid_sas + application which driver will support the device update. So application + will not need to do the device update after application add/del the device + from the system. +3. In driver's timeout routine, driver will do three time reset if fw is in + failed state. Driver will kill adapter if can't bring back FW after the + this three times reset. +4. Add the input parameter max_sectors to 1MB support to our GEN2 controller. + customer can use the input paramenter max_sectors to add 1MB support to GEN2 + controller. + 1 Release Date : Thur. Oct 29, 2009 09:12:45 PST 2009 - (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com) Bo Yang diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt b/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt index 1540a92f6d2..5b5f29cb9f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/FlashPoint.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ operating system support to its BusLogic brand of FlashPoint Ultra SCSI host adapters. All of BusLogic's other SCSI host adapters, including the MultiMaster line, currently support the Linux operating system. Linux drivers and information will be available on October 15th at -http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/. +http://sourceforge.net/projects/dandelion/. "Mylex is committed to supporting the Linux community," says Peter Shambora, vice president of marketing for Mylex. "We have supported Linux driver @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Linux is a freely-distributed implementation of UNIX for Intel x86, Sun SPARC, SGI MIPS, Motorola 68k, Digital Alpha AXP and Motorola PowerPC machines. It supports a wide range of software, including the X Window System, Emacs, and TCP/IP networking. Further information is available at -http://www.linux.org and http://www.ssc.com/linux. +http://www.linux.org and http://www.ssc.com/. FlashPoint Host Adapters diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/Mylex.txt b/Documentation/scsi/Mylex.txt index cdf69293f7d..3797f3e6c2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/Mylex.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/Mylex.txt @@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ Please see the file README.BusLogic for information about Linux support for Mylex (formerly BusLogic) MultiMaster and FlashPoint SCSI Host Adapters. The Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID Controllers are now supported. Please consult -http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/ for further information on the DAC960 driver. +http://sourceforge.net/projects/dandelion for further information on the DAC960 driver. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt b/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt index 3229b64cf24..ac8db8ceec7 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ 1. Comment This is Workbit corp.'s(http://www.workbit.co.jp/) NinjaSCSI-3 -(http://www.workbit.co.jp/ts/z_nj3r.html) and NinjaSCSI-32Bi -(http://www.workbit.co.jp/ts/z_njsc32bi.html) PCMCIA card driver module for Linux. 2. My Linux environment diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt index c014eccaf19..16e054c9c70 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ The following information is available in this file: http://www.adaptec.com/buy-cables/. Europe - - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec-europe.com/. + - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/_common/world_index. - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call, or email, * German: +49 89 4366 5522, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 CET, http://ask-de.adaptec.com/. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt index b7e238cbb5a..18f8d1905e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ The following information is available in this file: http://www.adaptec.com/buy-cables/. Europe - - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec-europe.com/. + - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/_common/world_index. - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call, or email, * German: +49 89 4366 5522, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 CET, http://ask-de.adaptec.com/. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt b/Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dca658362cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ + +HPSA - Hewlett Packard Smart Array driver +----------------------------------------- + +This file describes the hpsa SCSI driver for HP Smart Array controllers. +The hpsa driver is intended to supplant the cciss driver for newer +Smart Array controllers. The hpsa driver is a SCSI driver, while the +cciss driver is a "block" driver. Actually cciss is both a block +driver (for logical drives) AND a SCSI driver (for tape drives). This +"split-brained" design of the cciss driver is a source of excess +complexity and eliminating that complexity is one of the reasons +for hpsa to exist. + +Supported devices: +------------------ + +Smart Array P212 +Smart Array P410 +Smart Array P410i +Smart Array P411 +Smart Array P812 +Smart Array P712m +Smart Array P711m +StorageWorks P1210m + +Additionally, older Smart Arrays may work with the hpsa driver if the kernel +boot parameter "hpsa_allow_any=1" is specified, however these are not tested +nor supported by HP with this driver. For older Smart Arrays, the cciss +driver should still be used. + +HPSA specific entries in /sys +----------------------------- + + In addition to the generic SCSI attributes available in /sys, hpsa supports + the following attributes: + + HPSA specific host attributes: + ------------------------------ + + /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan + /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/firmware_revision + + the host "rescan" attribute is a write only attribute. Writing to this + attribute will cause the driver to scan for new, changed, or removed devices + (e.g. hot-plugged tape drives, or newly configured or deleted logical drives, + etc.) and notify the SCSI midlayer of any changes detected. Normally this is + triggered automatically by HP's Array Configuration Utility (either the GUI or + command line variety) so for logical drive changes, the user should not + normally have to use this. It may be useful when hot plugging devices like + tape drives, or entire storage boxes containing pre-configured logical drives. + + The "firmware_revision" attribute contains the firmware version of the Smart Array. + For example: + + root@host:/sys/class/scsi_host/host4# cat firmware_revision + 7.14 + + HPSA specific disk attributes: + ------------------------------ + + /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/unique_id + /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/raid_level + /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/lunid + + (where c:b:t:l are the controller, bus, target and lun of the device) + + For example: + + root@host:/sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device# cat unique_id + 600508B1001044395355323037570F77 + root@host:/sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device# cat lunid + 0x0000004000000000 + root@host:/sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device# cat raid_level + RAID 0 + +HPSA specific ioctls: +--------------------- + + For compatibility with applications written for the cciss driver, many, but + not all of the ioctls supported by the cciss driver are also supported by the + hpsa driver. The data structures used by these are described in + include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h + + CCISS_DEREGDISK + CCISS_REGNEWDISK + CCISS_REGNEWD + + The above three ioctls all do exactly the same thing, which is to cause the driver + to rescan for new devices. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the + hpsa specific host "rescan" attribute. + + CCISS_GETPCIINFO + + Returns PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID). + + CCISS_GETDRIVVER + + Returns driver version in three bytes encoded as: + (major_version << 16) | (minor_version << 8) | (subminor_version) + + CCISS_PASSTHRU + CCISS_BIG_PASSTHRU + + Allows "BMIC" and "CISS" commands to be passed through to the Smart Array. + These are used extensively by the HP Array Configuration Utility, SNMP storage + agents, etc. See cciss_vol_status at http://cciss.sf.net for some examples. + diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt index 3920f28710c..45d61ad8c6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt @@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ Q: Where can I find the latest info about this driver? A: See the file MAINTAINERS for the current WWW-address, which offers updates, info and Q/A lists. At this file's origin, the webaddress - was: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~langm000/linux.html + was: http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/mlang/linux.html Q: My SCSI-adapter is not recognized by the driver, what can I do? A: Just force it to be recognized by kernel parameters. See section 5.1. If this really happens, do also send e-mail to the maintainer, as diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt b/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt index 2b21890bc98..ad86c6d1e89 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/osst.txt @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ The driver development is coordinated through a mailing list a CVS repository and some web pages. The tester's pages which contain recent news and updated drivers to download can be found on -http://linux1.onstream.nl/test/ +http://sourceforge.net/projects/osst/ If you find any problems, please have a look at the tester's page in order to see whether the problem is already known and solved. Otherwise, please diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ppa.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ppa.txt index 067ac394e0b..05ff47dbe8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ppa.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ppa.txt @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -------- Terse where to get ZIP Drive help info -------- General Iomega ZIP drive page for Linux: -http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ +http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ Driver archive for old drivers: -http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ppa/ +http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.torque.net/~campbell/ppa Linux Parport page (parallel port) -http://www.torque.net/parport/ +http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.torque.net/parport/ Email list for Linux Parport linux-parport@torque.net diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt index c38e2b3648e..0a22ab8ea0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO This describes the sg version 3 driver found in the lk 2.4 series. The LDP renders documents in single and multiple page HTML, postscript and pdf. This document can also be found at: -http://www.torque.net/sg/p/sg_v3_ho.html +http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg_v3_ho.html Documentation for the version 2 sg driver found in the lk 2.2 series can -be found at http://www.torque.net/sg/p/scsi-generic.txt . A larger version -is at: http://www.torque.net/sg/p/scsi-generic_long.txt . +be found at http://sg.danny.cz/sg/. A larger version +is at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/scsi-generic_long.txt. The original documentation for the sg driver (prior to lk 2.2.6) can be found at http://www.torque.net/sg/p/original/SCSI-Programming-HOWTO.txt @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ There are two packages of sg utilities: - sg_utils for the sg version 2 (and original) driver found in lk 2.2 and earlier Both packages will work in the lk 2.4 series however sg3_utils offers more -capabilities. They can be found at: http://www.torque.net/sg and +capabilities. They can be found at: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html and freshmeat.net Another approach is to look at the applications that use the sg driver. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..21e5798526e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ + SCSI Kernel Parameters + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for general information on +specifying module parameters. + +This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command +"modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable +module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also +reveal their parameters in /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/. Some of these +parameters may be changed at runtime by the command +"echo -n ${value} > /sys/module/${modulename}/parameters/${parm}". + + + advansys= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/advansys.c. + + aha152x= [HW,SCSI] + See Documentation/scsi/aha152x.txt. + + aha1542= [HW,SCSI] + Format: <portbase>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<dmaspeed>]] + + aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] + See Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx.txt. + + aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] + See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. + + atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI + + BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] + See drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c, comment before function + BusLogic_ParseDriverOptions(). + + dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] + + eata= [HW,SCSI] + + fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c. + + fdomain= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/fdomain.c. + + gdth= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/gdth.c. + + gvp11= [HW,SCSI] + + ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter + See Documentation/mca.txt. + + in2000= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c. + + ips= [HW,SCSI] Adaptec / IBM ServeRAID controller + See header of drivers/scsi/ips.c. + + mac5380= [HW,SCSI] Format: + <can_queue>,<cmd_per_lun>,<sg_tablesize>,<hostid>,<use_tags> + + max_luns= [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs to probe. + Should be between 1 and 2^32-1. + + max_report_luns= + [SCSI] Maximum number of LUNs received. + Should be between 1 and 16384. + + NCR_D700= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/NCR_D700.c. + + ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] + + ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] + + nodisconnect [HW,SCSI,M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. + + osst= [HW,SCSI] SCSI Tape Driver + Format: <buffer_size>,<write_threshold> + See also Documentation/scsi/st.txt. + + pas16= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/pas16.c. + + scsi_debug_*= [SCSI] + See drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c. + + scsi_default_dev_flags= + [SCSI] SCSI default device flags + Format: <integer> + + scsi_dev_flags= [SCSI] Black/white list entry for vendor and model + Format: <vendor>:<model>:<flags> + (flags are integer value) + + scsi_logging_level= [SCSI] a bit mask of logging levels + See drivers/scsi/scsi_logging.h for bits. Also + settable via sysctl at dev.scsi.logging_level + (/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level). + There is also a nice 'scsi_logging_level' script in the + S390-tools package, available for download at + http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.5.4.html + + scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are + discovered. async scans them in kernel threads, + allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting + user space to do the scan. + + sim710= [SCSI,HW] + See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c. + + st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.) + See Documentation/scsi/st.txt. + + sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c. + + t128= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/t128.c. + + tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] + See comment before function dc390_setup() in + drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c. + + u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] UltraStor 14F/34F SCSI host adapter + See header of drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c. + + wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/wd33c93.c. + + wd7000= [HW,SCSI] + See header of drivers/scsi/wd7000.c. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt index dd1bbf4e98e..3d99d38cb62 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) maintains a document describing the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel (lk) 2.4 series. See: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO . The LDP has single and multiple page HTML renderings as well as postscript and pdf. -It can also be found at http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO . - +It can also be found at: +http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO Notes on using modules in the SCSI subsystem ============================================ diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt index de67229251d..570ef2b3d79 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ There is a SCSI documentation directory within the kernel source tree, typically Documentation/scsi . Most documents are in plain (i.e. ASCII) text. This file is named scsi_mid_low_api.txt and can be found in that directory. A more recent copy of this document may be found -at http://www.torque.net/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt.gz . +at http://web.archive.org/web/20070107183357rn_1/sg.torque.net/scsi/. Many LLDs are documented there (e.g. aic7xxx.txt). The SCSI mid-level is briefly described in scsi.txt which contains a url to a document describing the SCSI subsystem in the lk 2.4 series. Two upper level diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt index 40752602c05..691ca292c24 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This file contains brief information about the SCSI tape driver. The driver is currently maintained by Kai Mäkisara (email Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi) -Last modified: Sun Feb 24 21:59:07 2008 by kai.makisara +Last modified: Sun Aug 29 18:25:47 2010 by kai.makisara BASICS @@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ writing and the last operation has been a write. Two filemarks can be optionally written. In both cases end of data is signified by returning zero bytes for two consecutive reads. +Writing filemarks without the immediate bit set in the SCSI command block acts +as a synchronization point, i.e., all remaining data form the drive buffers is +written to tape before the command returns. This makes sure that write errors +are caught at that point, but this takes time. In some applications, several +consecutive files must be written fast. The MTWEOFI operation can be used to +write the filemarks without flushing the drive buffer. Writing filemark at +close() is always flushing the drive buffers. However, if the previous +operation is MTWEOFI, close() does not write a filemark. This can be used if +the program wants to close/open the tape device between files and wants to +skip waiting. + If rewind, offline, bsf, or seek is done and previous tape operation was write, a filemark is written before moving tape. @@ -301,6 +312,8 @@ MTBSR Space backward over count records. MTFSS Space forward over count setmarks. MTBSS Space backward over count setmarks. MTWEOF Write count filemarks. +MTWEOFI Write count filemarks with immediate bit set (i.e., does not + wait until data is on tape) MTWSM Write count setmarks. MTREW Rewind tape. MTOFFL Set device off line (often rewind plus eject). |