The Linux SCSI programming HOWTO
Heiko Eißfeldt
heiko@colossus.escape.de
v1.5, 7 May 1996
This document deals with programming the Linux generic SCSI interface.
1.
What's New?
2.
Introduction
3.
What Is The Generic SCSI Interface?
4.
What Are The Requirements To Use It?
4.1 Kernel Configuration
4.2 Device Files
4.3 Device Mapping
5.
Programmers Guide
6.
Overview Of Device Programming
7.
Opening The Device
8.
The Header Structure
9.
Inquiry Command Example
10.
The Sense Buffer
11.
Example Using Sense Buffer
12.
Ioctl Functions
13.
Driver Defaults
13.1 Transfer Lengths
13.2 Timeout And Retry Values
14.
Obtaining The Scsi Specifications
15.
Related Information Sources
15.1 HOWTOs and FAQs
15.2 Mailing list
15.3 Example code
16.
Other useful stuff
16.1 Device driver writer helpers
16.2 Utilities
17.
Other SCSI Access Interfaces
18.
Final Comments
19.
Acknowledgments
Appendix
20.
Appendix
21.
Error handling
21.1 Error status decoding
21.2 Status codes
21.3 SCSI Sense Keys
21.4 Host codes
21.5 Driver codes
22.
Additional sense codes and additional sense code qualifiers
22.1 ASC and ASCQ in lexical order
22.2 ASC and ASCQ in numerical order
23.
A SCSI command code quick reference
24.
Example programs
