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Devices                                                 pcata(7D)



NAME
     pcata - PCMCIA ATA card device driver

SYNOPSIS
     pcata@socket#:a -u


     pcata@socket#:a -u,raw


DESCRIPTION
     The PCMCIA ATA card device driver supports PCMCIA  ATA  disk
     and flash cards that follow the following standards:

         o    PC card 2.01 compliance (MBR+fdisk  table  required
              for all platforms).

         o    PC card ATA 2.01 compliance.

         o    PC card services 2.1 compliance.


     The driver supports standard PCMCIA ATA cards that contain a
     Card  Information  Structure  (CIS).  For  PCMCIA, nodes are
     created in /devices that include the socket  number  as  one
     component  of  the device name referred to by the node. How-
     ever, the names in /dev, /dev/dsk, and /dev/rdsk follow  the
     current conventions for ATA devices, which do not encode the
     socket number in any part of the name. For example, you  may
     have the following:



     ___________________________________________________________________________
    | Platform       |  /devices name                    |  /dev/dsk name      |
    |________________|___________________________________|_____________________|
    | x86            |  /devices/isa/pcic@1,3e0 /disk@0:a|  /dev/dsk/c1d0s0    |
    |________________|___________________________________|_____________________|
    | SPARC          |  /devices/iommu@f,e0000000        |  /dev/dsk/c1d0s0    |
    |                |  /sbus@f,e0001000           /SUNW,|                     |
    |                |  pcmcia@3,0 /disk@0:a             |                     |
    |________________|___________________________________|_____________________|


PRECONFIGURATION
     If a PC Card ATA device is recognized, the pcata  driver  is
     automatically loaded, IRQs allocated, devices nodes created,
     and special files created (if they do not already exist).

  Known Problems and Limitations
         o    You need to umount the file system before  removing
              the disk.



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Devices                                                 pcata(7D)



         o    The ufs file systems on removable  media  (PC  Card
              ATA)  should  have one of the onerror={panic, lock,
              umount} mount options set.

CONFIGURATION
     Configuration topics include initial installation and confi-
     guration,  identifying an unrecognized device, special files
     and hot-plugging.

  Initial Installation and Configuration
         1.   Install the Solaris software.

         2.   Boot the system.

         3.   Insert the PC card ATA device.

  Identifying an Unrecognized Device
     If you insert a PC card ATA device and it is not  recognized
     (no special files created), use the prtconf command to iden-
     tify the problem.

         1.   Run the prtconf -D command to  see  if  your  pcata
              card  is  recognized.  (A  recognized  device  will
              appear at the end of the prtconf output. For  exam-
              ple:

                # prtconf -D
                .  .  .
                pcic, instance #0 (driver name: pcic)
                    .  .  .
                   disk, instance #0


         2.   If pcata does not appear  in  the  prtconf  output,
              there  is a problem with the PC card adapter confi-
              guration or with the hardware. Check to see whether
              the problem is with the card or the adapter by try-
              ing to use the card on another machine and by  see-
              ing if it works on the same machine using DOS.

  Special Files
     For PC card devices, nodes  are  created  in  /devices  that
     include  the socket number as one component of a device name
     that the node refers to. However, the  /prtc/dev  names  and
     the  names  in  /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk do follow the current
     convention for ATA devices, which do not encode  the  socket
     number in any part of the name.

  Hot-Plugging
         o    If you want to remove the disk,  you  must  unmount
              the file system.




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         o    Use the mkfs_pcfs(1M) command to create a pcfs file
              system:

                # mkfs -F pcfs /dev/rdsk/c#d#p0:d


         o    To mount a pcfs file system, type:

                # mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c#d#p0:c /mnt


         o    If you want to create a ufs file  system,  use  the
              newfs command and type:

                # newfs /dev/rdsk/c#d#s#


         o    To mount a ufs file system, type:

                # mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c#d#s# /mnt


         o    To create a Solaris partition, run the format  com-
              mand  and go to the Partition menu. For more infor-
              mation, see the format(1M) man page.

FILES
     /kernel/drv/pcata    pcata driver


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | driver/storage/pcata        |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     format(1M), mount(1M), newfs(1M), pcmcia(7D), attributes(5),
     pcfs(7FS)









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