Provides a means to send Independent Network Storage Access Language (ISAL) Manager commands to an SSA physical or logical disk drive. ISAL comprises a set of commands which allow a program to control and access a storage device. The ISAL Command set is described in the Technical Reference for the adapter.
The SSADISK_ISALMgr_CMD operation allows the caller to issue an ISAL command to a selected logical or physical disk. The caller must be root or have an effective user ID of root to issue this ioctl.
The following ISAL commands (minor function codes), defined in /usr/include/ipn/ipnsal.h can be issued:
FN_ISALMgr_Inquiry FN_ISALMgr_GetPhysicalResourceIDs FN_ISALMgr_Characteristics FN_ISALMgr_FlashIndicator FN_ISALMgr_HardwareInquiry FN_ISALMgrVPDInquiry FN_ISALMgr_Statistics
The arg parameter for the SSADISK_ISALMgr_CMD ioctl is the address of an ssadisk_ioctl_parms structure. This structure is defined in the /usr/include/sys/ssadisk.h file.
The SSADISK_ISALMgr_CMD ioctl uses the following fields of the ssadisk_ioctl_parms structure:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| dsb | Contains the directive status byte returned for the command. This contains a value from /usr/include/ipn/ipndef.h. A non zero value indicates an error. |
| result | Contains the IPN result word returned by IPN for the command. This contains values from /usr/include/ipn/ipntra.h. A non zero value indicates an error. |
| u0.isal.parameter_descriptor | Set by the caller to indicate the buffer for parameter data. |
| u0.isal.transmit_descriptor | Set by the caller to indicate the buffer for transmit data. |
| u0.isal.receive_descriptor | Set by the caller to indicate the buffer for received data. |
| u0.isal.status_descriptor | Set by the caller to indicate the buffer for status data. |
| u0.isal.minor_function | Set by the caller to one of the ISAL Manager Commands defined in /usr/include/ipn/ipnsal.h and listed above. |
If the command was successfully sent to the adapter card, this operation returns a value of 0. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the errno global variable set to one of the following values:
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| EIO | Indicates an unrecoverable I/O error. |
| EINVAL | Indicates that the caller has specified an ISAL manager command that is not in the list of supported ISAL manager commands above. |
| EPERM | Indicates that caller did not have an effective user ID (EUID) of 0. |
| ENOMEM | Indicates that the device driver was unable to allocate or pin enough memory to complete the operation. |
If the return code is 0, the result field of the ssadisk_ioctl_parms structure is valid. This indicates whether the adapter was able to process the command successfully.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| /dev/pdisk0, /dev/pdisk1,..., /dev/pdiskn | Provide an interface to allow SSA device drivers to access physical SSA disks. |
| /dev/hdisk0, /dev/hdisk1,..., /dev/hdiskn | Provide an interface to allow SSA device drivers to access logical SSA disks. |