The following is information for debugging, useful when a driver experiences bus-wide problems. One global data variable has been defined for the SCSA implementation: scsi_options. This variable is a SCSA configuration longword used for debug and control. The defined bits in the scsi_options longword can be found in the file <sys/scsi/conf/autoconf.h>. Table G-2 shows their meanings when set.
Table G-2 SCSA Options
Option |
Description |
---|---|
SCSI_OPTIONS_DR |
Enables global disconnect/reconnect. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_SYNC |
Enables global synchronous transfer capability. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_LINK |
Enables global link support. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_PARITY |
Enables global parity support. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_TAG |
Enables global tagged queuing support. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST |
Enables global FAST SCSI support: 10MB/sec transfers, as opposed to 5 MB/sec. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST20 |
Enables global FAST20 SCSI support: 20MB/sec transfers. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST40 |
Enables global FAST40 SCSI support: 40MB/sec transfers. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST80 |
Enables global FAST80 SCSI support: 80MB/sec transfers. |
SCSI_OPTIONS_WIDE |
Enables global WIDE SCSI. |
The setting of scsi_options affects all host adapter and target drivers present on the system (as opposed to scsi_ifsetcap(9F)). Refer to scsi_hba_attach(9F) in the Solaris 2.6 Reference Manual for information on controlling these options for a particular host adapter.
The default setting for scsi_options has these values set:
SCSI_OPTIONS_DR
SCSI_OPTIONS_SYNC
SCSI_OPTIONS_LINK
SCSI_OPTIONS_PARITY
SCSI_OPTIONS_TAG
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST20
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST40
SCSI_OPTIONS_FAST80
SCSI_OPTIONS_WIDE
For a definition of tagged queuing refer to the SCSI-2 specification. To support tagged queuing, first check the scsi_options flag SCSI_OPTIONS_TAG to see if tagged queuing is enabled globally. Next, check to see if the target is a SCSI-2 device and whether it has tagged queuing enabled. If this is all true, attempt to enable tagged queuing by using scsi_ifsetcap(9F). Example G-1 shows an example of supporting tagged queuing.
#define ROUTE &sdp->sd_address ... /* * If SCSI-2 tagged queueing is supported by the disk drive and * by the host adapter then we will enable it. */ xsp->tagflags = 0; if ((scsi_options & SCSI_OPTIONS_TAG) && (devp->sd_inq->inq_rdf == RDF_SCSI2) && (devp->sd_inq->inq_cmdque)) { if (scsi_ifsetcap(ROUTE, "tagged-qing", 1, 1) == 1) { xsp->tagflags = FLAG_STAG; xsp->throttle = 256; } else if (scsi_ifgetcap(ROUTE, "untagged-qing", 0) == 1) { xsp->dp->options |= XX_QUEUEING; xsp->throttle = 3; } else { xsp->dp->options &= ~XX_QUEUEING; xsp->throttle = 1; } }
If tagged queueing fails, you can attempt to set untagged queuing. In this mode, you submit as many commands as you think necessary or optimal to the host adapter driver. Then, the host adapter queues the commands to the target one at a time (as opposed to tagged queueing, where the host adapter submits as many commands as it can until the target indicates that the queue is full).