The Linux SCSI HOWTO

Drew Eckhardt,<drew@PoohSticks.ORG> (transformed to linuxdoc-sgml format by Dieter Faulbaum), <faulbaum@bii.bessy.de>

1. Introduction

2. Common Problems

• 2.1 General Flakiness
• 2.2 The kernel command line
• 2.3 A SCSI device shows up at all possible IDs
• 2.4 A SCSI device shows up at all possible LUNs
• 2.5 You get sense errors when you know the devices are error free
• 2.6 A kernel configured with networking does not work
• 2.7 Device detected, but unable to access
• 2.8 SCSI System Lockups
• 2.9 Configuring and building the kernel
• 2.10 LUNS other than 0 don't work

3. Reporting Bugs

• 3.1 Capturing messages
• 3.2 Locating the source of a panic()

4. Modules

• 4.1 General Information
• 4.2 Module support in the 1.2.N kernel
• 4.3 Module support in the 1.3.N kernel

5. Hosts

• 5.1 Supported and Unsupported Hardware
• 5.2 Common Problems
• 5.3 Adaptec 152x, 151x, 1505, 282x, Sound Blaster 16 SCSI, SCSI Pro, Gigabyte, and other AIC 6260/6360 based products (Standard)
• 5.4 Adaptec 154x, AMI FastDisk VLB, DTC 329x (Standard)
• 5.5 Adaptec 174x
• 5.6 Adaptec 274x, 284x (Standard) 294x (ALPHA)
• 5.7 Always IN2000 (Standard)
• 5.8 BusLogic MultiMaster Host Adapters
• 5.9 BusLogic FlashPoint Host Adapters
• 5.10 EATA: DPT SmartCache, SmartCache Plus, SmartCache III, SmartCache IV and SmartRAID (Standard)
• 5.11 Future Domain 16x0 with TMC-1800, TMC-18C30, TMC-18C50, or TMC-36C70 chip
• 5.12 Generic NCR5380 / T130B (Standard)
• 5.13 NCR53c8xx (Standard)
• 5.14 Seagate ST0x/Future Domain TMC-8xx/TMC-9xx (Standard)
• 5.15 PAS16 SCSI (Standard)
• 5.16 Trantor T128/T128F/T228 (Standard)
• 5.17 Ultrastor 14f (ISA), 24f (EISA), 34f (VLB) (Standard)
• 5.18 Western Digital 7000 (Standard)
• 5.19 AM53/79C974 (ALPHA)
• 5.20 qlogic (Standard)

6. Disks

• 6.1 Supported and Unsupported Hardware
• 6.2 Common Problems
• 6.3 Device Files
• 6.4 Partitioning
• 6.5 Disk Geometry

7. CD ROMs

• 7.1 Supported and Unsupported Hardware
• 7.2 Common Problems
• 7.3 Device Files

8. Tapes

• 8.1 Supported and Unsupported Hardware
• 8.2 Common Problems
• 8.3 Device Files

9. Generic

• 9.1 Supported Hardware
• 9.2 Common Problems
• 9.3 Device Files

10. Buyers' Guide

• 10.1 Transfer types
• 10.2 Scatter/gather
• 10.3 Mailbox vs. non-mailbox
• 10.4 Bus types
• 10.5 Multiple devices
• 10.6 SCSI-I, SCSI-II, SCSI-III FAST and WIDE options, etc.
• 10.7 Driver feature comparison
• 10.8 Board comparison
• 10.9 Summary

11. Assignment of minor numbers