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diff --git a/man5/proc_scsi.5 b/man5/proc_scsi.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12f92aa --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/proc_scsi.5 @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) , Michael Neuffer <neuffer@mail.uni-mainz.de> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_scsi 5 2023-08-15 "Linux man-pages 6.7" +.SH NAME +/proc/scsi/ \- SCSI +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.I /proc/scsi/ +A directory with the +.I scsi +mid-level pseudo-file and various SCSI low-level +driver directories, +which contain a file for each SCSI host in this system, all of +which give the status of some part of the SCSI IO subsystem. +These files contain ASCII structures and are, therefore, readable with +.BR cat (1). +.IP +You can also write to some of the files to reconfigure the subsystem or +switch certain features on or off. +.TP +.I /proc/scsi/scsi +This is a listing of all SCSI devices known to the kernel. +The listing is similar to the one seen during bootup. +scsi currently supports only the \fIadd\-single\-device\fP command which +allows root to add a hotplugged device to the list of known devices. +.IP +The command +.IP +.in +4n +.EX +echo \[aq]scsi add\-single\-device 1 0 5 0\[aq] > /proc/scsi/scsi +.EE +.in +.IP +will cause +host scsi1 to scan on SCSI channel 0 for a device on ID 5 LUN 0. +If there +is already a device known on this address or the address is invalid, an +error will be returned. +.TP +.IR /proc/scsi/ drivername / +\fIdrivername\fP can currently be NCR53c7xx, aha152x, aha1542, aha1740, +aic7xxx, buslogic, eata_dma, eata_pio, fdomain, in2000, pas16, qlogic, +scsi_debug, seagate, t128, u15\-24f, ultrastore, or wd7000. +These directories show up for all drivers that registered at least one +SCSI HBA. +Every directory contains one file per registered host. +Every host-file is named after the number the host was assigned during +initialization. +.IP +Reading these files will usually show driver and host configuration, +statistics, and so on. +.IP +Writing to these files allows different things on different hosts. +For example, with the \fIlatency\fP and \fInolatency\fP commands, +root can switch on and off command latency measurement code in the +eata_dma driver. +With the \fIlockup\fP and \fIunlock\fP commands, +root can control bus lockups simulated by the scsi_debug driver. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |