System Probing with SCC lun devices

James Smart USG smart at zk3.dec.com
Fri Jan 3 13:21:38 PST 1997


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Hi Larry,

You don't have to be a SCC peripheral driver to send
a Report Luns command. In most cases, the probing element is
independent from the peripheral drivers (so that the appropriate
drives can thereafter attach to the appropriate device that's
known to be in existence) or each peripheral driver is told to
look at the device and see if it recognizes the device. 
As such, the probing element can pick and choose the commands
used to complete the probe.

So, using Report Luns seems reasonable to me. I do wonder if there's
a better way than trial and error to determine when it's best to
use Report Luns. The basic assumption being that Report Luns is only
present on a SCSI-3 device. If Lun 0 returns a type indicating SCSI-2
(which also means it may not indicate an SCC device type) what's the
best method to continue probing with ?

-- James


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Date: Fri,  3 Jan 97 12:19:09 PST
From: Larry Chen <larryc at maxstrat.com>
Subject: System Probing with SCC lun devices
To: scsi at symbios.com, serial_solutions at zk3.dec.com
Sender: owner-serial_solutions

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In a typical System probing methodology, the
configuration driver must probe for luns and populate
the equipment device table (edt in CAM terminology)
before any of the other peripheral device drivers are 
initialized.

It has been suggested that the Report Luns command
can be issued to SCC lun to determine the
the other non-SSC lun(s) that are behind the array
controller device.

If this is the case, the SCC host driver must now be
part of the configuration driver. The SCC host driver
must issue a Report Luns command and populate the
equipment device table (edt in Cam terminology) before
any of the Non-SCC drivers are initialized (and claim
their luns).

Is this an acceptable System probing methodology for
the System folks?

Regards,
Larry
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