SCSI documentation

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SCSI488/S

The SCSI488/S Sun/IEEE 488 controller consists of the Driver488/S software and a SCSI488/S IEEE 488 interface.

It allows up to 14 IEEE 488 instruments to be controlled from Sun Workstations via their external SCSI port. A microprocessor in the SCSI/S automatically converts data between the SCSI and IEEE 488 protocols.

The driver is an IEEE 488 device driver for Solaris 2.5(SunOS 5.5), which integrates familiar Hewlett Packard style IEEE 488 commands with the Sun operating system. It includes the device driver files and the interface files.

The driver was installed on "jormungandr" workstation in the following path:
/opt/IOTsiti .

Device Driver Files

README

A text file that, if present, contains new material that is not in the manual.

SITI.O

The SCSI IOtech interface driver object file that contains Driver488/S.

SITICONF.CMD

The device definition file. It includes the definitions of each IEEE 488 interface and permanent named device that is installed in the system. A named device is an IEEE 488 bus device whose characteristics (bus addresses and terminators) can be used implicitly by specifying a name, rather than explicitly with each SCSI488/S command .

SITISETUP

The translator program that interprets the SITICONF.CMD file to produce the C-language SITICONF.C file, and the shell script MAKEDEV.SITI SITICONF.C is automatically complied and linked into the kernel with SITI.O to form the complete device driver. MAKEDEV.SITI includes the commands necessary to create the IEEE488 interface device nodes in /dev/ieee488/ .

SITICONF.H

A header file which is needed to compile SITICONF.C .

MAKEFILE

A command file for make that includes directions for generating SITICONF.C , as well as generating the executable versions of the example programs.

Interface files

IEEEIO.C

A set of utility routines that simplify control of SCSI488/S.

IEEEIO.H

A header file with definitions for using IEEEIO.C .

SBITIIOCTL.H

A few I/O control definitions used by IEEEIO.C .