HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 7 Device (Special) Files, 9 General Information, Index (vol 10)

scsi_ctl(7) scsi_ctl(7)

to get correct command results.

Very large (or inﬁnite) timeout values can cause a parallel SCSI bus (potentially the entire system) to hang.

Device and/or bus reset operations can be used to regain a device’s attention when a timeout expires.

Resetting a device can cause I/O errors and/or loss of cached data. This can result in loss of data and/or

system panics.

Obtaining SCSI INQUIRY data by use of the

SIOC_INQUIRY ioctl instead of by use of the SIOC_IO

ioctl is generally preferable since SCSI implementations on the HP-UX operating system synchronize access

of inquiry data during driver open calls.

Since communication parameters can be affected by device-speciﬁc driver capabilities, device-speciﬁc driver

use might result in communication parameter changes.

The

SIOC_CAPACITY

ioctl is not supported by scsi_ctl because the meaning of capacity is device-

speciﬁc.

FILES

/usr/include/sys/scsi.h

/usr/include/sys/scsi_ctl.h