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Conference ssag::ask_ssag

Title:	Ask the Storage Architecture Group
Notice:	Check out our web page at http://www-starch.shr.dec.com
Moderator:	SSAG::TERZAN

Created:	Wed Oct 15 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6756
Total number of notes:	25276

6546.0. "Any way to find out types of adapters on a machine remotely?" by DECWET::TRESSEL (Pat Tressel) Thu Apr 03 1997 23:23

Is there a way to find out what types of SCSI adapters are present on a
machine running Digital Unix?  Without opening up the box?  (I don't have
physical access, and don't want to make the customer shut their machine
down and poke around inside.)  Tried uerf and various scu queries...

Thanks!

-- Pat Tressel

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
6546.1		SSDEVO::ROLLOW	Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.	`Fri Apr 04 1997 09:39`	22
	Uerf(8) and scu(8) are limited to seeing the busses in the configuration file. The uerf(8) boot listings will give you configuration bus name, which can be translated back to SCSI adapter: bus xza0 The KZMSA on the DEC 7000. bus tcds0 One of the PMAZ, PMAZB or PMAZC TURBOchannel SCSI adapters. The PMAZ will have only one "asc" device on it and the others will have two. The PMAZB only supports slow SCSI while the PMAZC supports fast SCSI. There is a label near the connectors of the card to say which is which. bus tza0 The KZTSA TURBOchannel adapter. bus aha0 The Adaptec 1740/1742 bus psiop0 The KZPAA or a built-in adapter using the NCR 810 chip (set?) bus pza0 The KZPSA bus isp0 Either the KZPDA or adapters built into the KFTIA used on the 8400/8200 systems. bus siop0 The built-in adapter of the DEC 4000 (snake) systems.
6546.2	Try GETSYSINFO	SUBSYS::DELEO		`Fri Apr 04 1997 09:40`	8
	I don't know which version of Digital Unix your customer is running but how about using the GETSYSINFO command. man getsysinfo for more details (GSI_CTLR_NAME on my V4.0 system). Good luck, Cheryl
6546.3	Thanks!	DECWET::TRESSEL	Pat Tressel	`Fri Apr 04 1997 15:35`	12
	Alan -- Thanks! That should do the trick. Cheryl -- Hmmm, that looks intriguing -- I wonder if anyone's written a program to call getsysinfo and (for instance) print out various pieces of info selected by (say) command line options. That could be useful in collecting basic info for any sort of DUnix customer problem. -- Pat
6546.4		NABETH::alan	Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.	`Fri Apr 04 1997 19:28`	8
	I've got one somewhere. Even has a GUI version. At one point we were going to turn it into a general purpose program launcher for device configuration programs. It uses a configuration file to associate device names with configuration programs. When I get a spare moment, I'll see if I have a version in a semi-public place.
6546.5		NABETH::alan	Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.	`Fri Apr 04 1997 23:57`	9
	The program, such as it is, is in: nabeth.cxo.dec.com:Z/dxsubsys.tar.Z It compiles on Digital UNIX V4.0B and DEC OSF/1 V1.3. It didn't run well on V1.3, but I think it is blocked trying to open a device during the device scan. It doesn't handle the newest naming of SCSI devices, but does show the basic device structure. The "Show Organization" is very old...