NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | DEVICE SPECIAL FILES | IOCTLS | ERRORS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS | NOTES
storage@unit-address
The scsa2usb host bus adapter driver is a USBA (Solaris USB Architecture) compliant nexus driver which supports the USB Bulk Only Mass Storage Specification 1.0. It supports bus powered and self powered USB mass storage devices. This nexus driver is a client driver for USB.
The scsa2usb nexus driver maps SCSA target driver requests to the USBA client driver requests.
For each logical unit on the mass storage device, the scsa2usb driver creates a child device info node. Currently, only disk nodes that attach to the standard Solaris SCSI disk driver are supported. (Refer to sd(7D).
The driver supports IOMEGA USB removable media Zip drives (Zip100 and Zip250). The Zip100 can store up to 100 MBytes of data while the Zip250 can store up to 250 MBytes of data. The USB Zip drives are not bootable devices.
Block special file names are found in /dev/dsk; raw file names are found in /dev/rdsk. Input/Output requests to the devices must follow the same restrictions as those for SCSI disk. Refer to sd(7D).
Refer to dkio(7I).
Refer to sd(7D).
The device special files for the USB mass storage device are created like those for a SCSI disk. Refer to sd(7D).
Block files
Raw files
32-bit ELF kernel module
64-bit ELF kernel module
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
---|---|
Architecture | PCI-based systems |
Availability | SUNWusb, SUNWusbx |
fdisk(1M), format(1M),cfgadm_scsi(1M), scsi(4), ohci(7D), sd(7D),uhci(7D),usb_mid(7D), dkio(7I), pcfs(7FS)
Writing Device Drivers
Universal Serial Bus Specification 1.1
Universal Serial Bus Mass Storage Class Specification Overview 1.0
Universal Serial Bus Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport 1.0
Refer to sd(7D).
The messages described below may appear on the system console, as well as being logged. All messages are formatted in the following manner:
Warning: <device path> (scsa2usb%d): Error Message... |
The system wide suspend failed because the Zip device is busy. Close the device before retrying the suspend.
The Zip device that was hot-removed from its USB slot has been re-inserted again to the same slot. It is available for access.
Disconnecting of the Zip device failed because the device is busy. Please reconnect the device.
Another USB device has been inserted on the port that housed a Zip device. Please disconnect the USB device and reconnect the Zip device back into its place.
There was an error in accessing the Zip device during reconnect. Please reconnect the device.
System panic. A file system is mounted on the Zip media. Syncing is not supported by scsa2usb driver.
The Zip 100 drive cannot be power managed as it does not comply with Universal Serial Bus Specification 1.0. Power Management support for Zip100 has been disabled.
If the system panics while a UFS file system is mounted on the Zip media, no syncing will take place because syncing is not supported by the scsa2usb driver. As a result, the file system on the media will not be consistent on reboot.
If a PCFS file system was mounted, no syncing is needed and the filesystem will be consistent on reboot.
If a Zip drive is busy, system suspend cannot proceed and the system will immediately resume again.
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