Technical data

corvette(7D) Devices SunOS 5.5
NAME corvette − low-level module for IBM Micro Channel SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Adapter/A
AVAILABILITY x86
DESCRIPTION The corvette module provides low-level interface routines between the common
disk/tape I/O subsystem and the IBM Micro ChannelSCSI-2 (Small Computer System
Interface) Fast/Wide Adapter/A controllers. The corvette module can be configured for
disk and streaming tape support for one or more host adapter boards, each of which
must be the sole initiator on a SCSI bus. Auto configuration code determines if the
adapter is present at the configured address and what types of devices are attached to it.
CONFIGURATION
Board Configuration
and Auto
Configuration
The driver attempts to initialize itself in accordance with the information found in the
configuration file, /kernel/drv/corvette.conf. Each controller supports two logically
independentSCSI busses, an internalbus and an external bus. Each system may support
upto 8 controllers depending on the number of available mother-board slots.
FILES /kernel/drv/corvette.conf configuration file for corvette.
7D-70 modified 10 Feb 1995