62 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
62 lines
1.4 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: se.4,v 1.1 1998/06/10 11:15:22 fair Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd February 3, 1997
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.Dt SE 4
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.Os NetBSD
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm se
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.Nd Cabletron EA41x SCSI bus Ethernet interface driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "se* at scsibus? target ? lun ?"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the
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.Tn Cabletron
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EA41x
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.Tn SCSI
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bus
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.Tn Ethernet
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interface.
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.Pp
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This driver is a bit unusual.
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It must look like a network interface and it must also appear to be a
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.Tn SCSI
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device to the
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.Tn SCSI
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system.
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.Pp
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In addition, to facilitate
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.Tn SCSI
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commands issued by userland programs, there are
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.Fn open ,
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.Fn close ,
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and
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.Fn ioctl
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entry points.
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This allows a user program to, for example,
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display the EA41x statistic and download new code into the adaptor \-
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functions which can't be performed through the
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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interface.
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Normal operation does not require any special userland program.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr scsi 4 ,
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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Ian Dall <ian.dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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.Pp
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Acknowledgement: Thanks are due to Philip L. Budne <budd@cs.bu.edu>
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who reverse engineered the the EA41x.
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In developing this code, Phil's userland daemon "etherd",
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was refered to extensively in lieu of accurate documentation for the device.
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.Sh BUGS
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The EA41x doesn't conform to the
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.Tn SCSI
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specification in much at all.
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About the only standard command supported is
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.Qq inquiry .
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Most commands are 6 bytes long, but the recv data is only 1 byte.
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Data must be received by periodically polling the device with the
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recv command.
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