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NAME

       /proc/scsi/ - SCSI

DESCRIPTION

       /proc/scsi/
              A  directory  with  the  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
              cat(1).

              You can also write to some of the files to reconfigure the subsystem or switch certain features on
              or off.

       /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 add-single-device command which  allows  root  to
              add a hotplugged device to the list of known devices.

              The command

                  echo 'scsi add-single-device 1 0 5 0' > /proc/scsi/scsi

              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.

       /proc/scsi/drivername/
              drivername 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.

              Reading these files will usually show driver and host configuration, statistics, and so on.

              Writing to these files allows different things on different hosts.  For example, with the  latency
              and  nolatency  commands,  root  can  switch  on  and  off command latency measurement code in the
              eata_dma driver.  With the lockup and unlock commands, root can control bus lockups  simulated  by
              the scsi_debug driver.

SEE ALSO

       proc(5)