Chapter 7 Board-control Commands

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Introduction

Introduction

Summary

There are two types of commands that you will issue to the RF3880 adapter: Pass-through commands, and adapter Board-control commands. This chapter concentrates on Board-control commands.

Board-control commands allow you to communicate set-up information and operational guidelines to the RF3880 adapter, as well as request current information from the board, perform diagnostics, and selectively reset the SCSI bus. This chapter is intended to be used as a look-up reference for these Board- control commands issued to the adapter.

If you need information about the SCSI Pass-through commands available, see a current SCSI, SCSI-2, or SCSI-3 specification and CCS addendum. See Chapter 5 for information about initiating an Initiator Pass-through command, or Chapter 6 for Target Mode Pass-through commands.

This chapter provides detail about each individual Board-control command:

The command code

A description of the command

Explanation of unique flags and Parameter Block fields

Examples of command usage where helpful

This chapter is most helpful to someone writing or modifying a driver for the RF3880 product.

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