This driver supports hot insertion and removal of devices on the SCSI bus using the sdiadd(1M) and sdirm(1M) commands. It supports DPT WIDE SCSI controllers.
You can access this subsystem directly using the pass-through driver interface. This allows you to issue sb control blocks directly to the target controller. To find the appropriate device to use, while any device is being accessed through the target driver (for example, sd01), use the B_GETDEV ioctl to get the major and minor numbers of the pass-through node. This node can be created and opened for pass-through use (SDI_SEND) ioctl.
The DPT host adapter driver honors the command timeout values as specified in the scb structure; see the scb(D4sdi) manual page. A software watchdog timer enforces the processing time limit. When the watchdog timer detects a job that has exceeded its processing time limit, it attempts to abort the job with a SCSI Job Abort Message. The driver also enforces a time limit on the abort process, thereby ensuring that jobs that timeout are reported to the sending SDI Target Driver whether or not the abort succeeds.
For ISA DPT controllers to work in UnixWare, the I/O ports must be set secondary/disabled.