Technical data

SunOS 5.5 Devices soc(7D)
NAME soc − Serial Optical Controller (SOC) device driver
SYNOPSIS soc@sbus-slot,0
DESCRIPTION The Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter is an SBus card which implements two full duplex
Fibre Channel interfaces. Each Fibre Channel interface supports a point to point interface
to another Fibre Channeldevice.
The soc device driver is a nexus driver. The soc driver implements portions of the FC-2
and FC-4 layers of the Fibre Channel.
FILES /kernel/drv/soc ELF Kernel Module
SEE ALSO sbus(4), pln(7D), ssd(7D)
Writing Device Drivers
DIAGNOSTICS The messages described below are some that may appear on system console, as well as
being logged.
On the console these messages are preceded by
"soc%d: port %a"
where %d is the instance number of the soc controller and %a is the port on the host
adapter.
Fibre Channel is ONLINE
The Fibre Channelis now online to the device.
Fibre Channel is OFFLINE
The Fibre Channelconnection is now offline.
INCORRECT WWN: Found: xxxx,xxxxxxxx Expected: yyyy,yyyyyyyy
This message means that the soc re-logged into a device after the Fibre Channel
connection went offline and back online and the World Wide Name of the device
is now different. This probably means the cable has been pluggedinto another
device.
attach failed: unable to map eeprom
Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did
not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map XRAM
Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did
not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map registers
Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did
not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
modified 6 Apr 1995 7D-299