1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3================================================= 4The Linux NCR53C8XX/SYM53C8XX drivers README file 5================================================= 6 7Written by Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr> 8 921 Rue Carnot 10 1195170 DEUIL LA BARRE - FRANCE 12 1329 May 1999 14 15.. Contents: 16 17 1. Introduction 18 2. Supported chips and SCSI features 19 3. Advantages of the enhanced 896 driver 20 3.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS 21 3.2 New features of the SYM53C896 (64 bit PCI dual LVD SCSI controller) 22 4. Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O 23 5. Tagged command queueing 24 6. Parity checking 25 7. Profiling information 26 8. Control commands 27 8.1 Set minimum synchronous period 28 8.2 Set wide size 29 8.3 Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands 30 8.4 Set order type for tagged command 31 8.5 Set debug mode 32 8.6 Clear profile counters 33 8.7 Set flag (no_disc) 34 8.8 Set verbose level 35 8.9 Reset all logical units of a target 36 8.10 Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target 37 9. Configuration parameters 38 10. Boot setup commands 39 10.1 Syntax 40 10.2 Available arguments 41 10.2.1 Master parity checking 42 10.2.2 Scsi parity checking 43 10.2.3 Scsi disconnections 44 10.2.4 Special features 45 10.2.5 Ultra SCSI support 46 10.2.6 Default number of tagged commands 47 10.2.7 Default synchronous period factor 48 10.2.8 Negotiate synchronous with all devices 49 10.2.9 Verbosity level 50 10.2.10 Debug mode 51 10.2.11 Burst max 52 10.2.12 LED support 53 10.2.13 Max wide 54 10.2.14 Differential mode 55 10.2.15 IRQ mode 56 10.2.16 Reverse probe 57 10.2.17 Fix up PCI configuration space 58 10.2.18 Serial NVRAM 59 10.2.19 Check SCSI BUS 60 10.2.20 Exclude a host from being attached 61 10.2.21 Suggest a default SCSI id for hosts 62 10.2.22 Enable use of IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION 63 10.3 Advised boot setup commands 64 10.4 PCI configuration fix-up boot option 65 10.5 Serial NVRAM support boot option 66 10.6 SCSI BUS checking boot option 67 10.7 IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION boot option 68 11. Some constants and flags of the ncr53c8xx.h header file 69 12. Installation 70 13. Architecture dependent features 71 14. Known problems 72 14.1 Tagged commands with Iomega Jaz device 73 14.2 Device names change when another controller is added 74 14.3 Using only 8 bit devices with a WIDE SCSI controller. 75 14.4 Possible data corruption during a Memory Write and Invalidate 76 14.5 IRQ sharing problems 77 15. SCSI problem troubleshooting 78 15.1 Problem tracking 79 15.2 Understanding hardware error reports 80 16. Synchronous transfer negotiation tables 81 16.1 Synchronous timings for 53C875 and 53C860 Ultra-SCSI controllers 82 16.2 Synchronous timings for fast SCSI-2 53C8XX controllers 83 17. Serial NVRAM support (by Richard Waltham) 84 17.1 Features 85 17.2 Symbios NVRAM layout 86 17.3 Tekram NVRAM layout 87 18. Support for Big Endian 88 18.1 Big Endian CPU 89 18.2 NCR chip in Big Endian mode of operations 90 911. Introduction 92=============== 93 94The initial Linux ncr53c8xx driver has been a port of the ncr driver from 95FreeBSD that has been achieved in November 1995 by: 96 97 - Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr> 98 99The original driver has been written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by: 100 101 - Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@cologne.de> 102 - Stefan Esser <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de> 103 104It is now available as a bundle of 2 drivers: 105 106- ncr53c8xx generic driver that supports all the SYM53C8XX family including 107 the earliest 810 rev. 1, the latest 896 (2 channel LVD SCSI controller) and 108 the new 895A (1 channel LVD SCSI controller). 109- sym53c8xx enhanced driver (a.k.a. 896 drivers) that drops support of oldest 110 chips in order to gain advantage of new features, as LOAD/STORE instructions 111 available since the 810A and hardware phase mismatch available with the 112 896 and the 895A. 113 114You can find technical information about the NCR 8xx family in the 115PCI-HOWTO written by Michael Will and in the SCSI-HOWTO written by 116Drew Eckhardt. 117 118Information about new chips is available at LSILOGIC web server: 119 120 - http://www.lsilogic.com/ 121 122SCSI standard documentations are available at SYMBIOS ftp server: 123 124 - ftp://ftp.symbios.com/ 125 126Useful SCSI tools written by Eric Youngdale are available at tsx-11: 127 128 - ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsiinfo-X.Y.tar.gz 129 - ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsidev-X.Y.tar.gz 130 131These tools are not ALPHA but quite clean and work quite well. 132It is essential you have the 'scsiinfo' package. 133 134This short documentation describes the features of the generic and enhanced 135drivers, configuration parameters and control commands available through 136the proc SCSI file system read / write operations. 137 138This driver has been tested OK with linux/i386, Linux/Alpha and Linux/PPC. 139 140Latest driver version and patches are available at: 141 142 - ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/gerard-roudier 143 144or 145 146 - ftp://ftp.symbios.com/mirror/ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/roudier/drivers 147 148I am not a native speaker of English and there are probably lots of 149mistakes in this README file. Any help will be welcome. 150 151 1522. Supported chips and SCSI features 153==================================== 154 155The following features are supported for all chips: 156 157 - Synchronous negotiation 158 - Disconnection 159 - Tagged command queuing 160 - SCSI parity checking 161 - Master parity checking 162 163"Wide negotiation" is supported for chips that allow it. The 164following table shows some characteristics of NCR 8xx family chips 165and what drivers support them. 166 167+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 168| | | | | |Supported by|Supported by| 169| |On board | | | |the generic |the enhanced| 170|Chip |SDMS BIOS |Wide |SCSI std. | Max. sync |driver |driver | 171+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 172|810 | N | N | FAST10 | 10 MB/s | Y | N | 173+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 174|810A | N | N | FAST10 | 10 MB/s | Y | Y | 175+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 176|815 | Y | N | FAST10 | 10 MB/s | Y | N | 177+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 178|825 | Y | Y | FAST10 | 20 MB/s | Y | N | 179+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 180|825A | Y | Y | FAST10 | 20 MB/s | Y | Y | 181+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 182|860 | N | N | FAST20 | 20 MB/s | Y | Y | 183+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 184|875 | Y | Y | FAST20 | 40 MB/s | Y | Y | 185+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 186|876 | Y | Y | FAST20 | 40 MB/s | Y | Y | 187+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 188|895 | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | 189+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 190|895A | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | 191+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 192|896 | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | 193+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 194|897 | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | 195+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 196|1510D | Y | Y | FAST40 | 80 MB/s | Y | Y | 197+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 198|1010 | Y | Y | FAST80 |160 MB/s | N | Y | 199+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 200|1010_66 | Y | Y | FAST80 |160 MB/s | N | Y | 201|[1]_ | | | | | | | 202+--------+-----------+-----+-----------+------------+------------+------------+ 203 204.. [1] Chip supports 33MHz and 66MHz PCI buses. 205 206 207Summary of other supported features: 208 209:Module: allow to load the driver 210:Memory mapped I/O: increases performance 211:Profiling information: read operations from the proc SCSI file system 212:Control commands: write operations to the proc SCSI file system 213:Debugging information: written to syslog (expert only) 214:Serial NVRAM: Symbios and Tekram formats 215 216- Scatter / gather 217- Shared interrupt 218- Boot setup commands 219 220 2213. Advantages of the enhanced 896 driver 222======================================== 223 2243.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS 225-------------------------- 226 227The 810A, 825A, 875, 895, 896 and 895A support new SCSI SCRIPTS instructions 228named LOAD and STORE that allow to move up to 1 DWORD from/to an IO register 229to/from memory much faster that the MOVE MEMORY instruction that is supported 230by the 53c7xx and 53c8xx family. 231The LOAD/STORE instructions support absolute and DSA relative addressing 232modes. The SCSI SCRIPTS had been entirely rewritten using LOAD/STORE instead 233of MOVE MEMORY instructions. 234 2353.2 New features of the SYM53C896 (64 bit PCI dual LVD SCSI controller) 236----------------------------------------------------------------------- 237 238The 896 and the 895A allows handling of the phase mismatch context from 239SCRIPTS (avoids the phase mismatch interrupt that stops the SCSI processor 240until the C code has saved the context of the transfer). 241Implementing this without using LOAD/STORE instructions would be painful 242and I didn't even want to try it. 243 244The 896 chip supports 64 bit PCI transactions and addressing, while the 245895A supports 32 bit PCI transactions and 64 bit addressing. 246The SCRIPTS processor of these chips is not true 64 bit, but uses segment 247registers for bit 32-63. Another interesting feature is that LOAD/STORE 248instructions that address the on-chip RAM (8k) remain internal to the chip. 249 250Due to the use of LOAD/STORE SCRIPTS instructions, this driver does not 251support the following chips: 252 253- SYM53C810 revision < 0x10 (16) 254- SYM53C815 all revisions 255- SYM53C825 revision < 0x10 (16) 256 2574. Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O 258====================================== 259 260Memory mapped I/O has less latency than normal I/O. Since 261linux-1.3.x, memory mapped I/O is used rather than normal I/O. Memory 262mapped I/O seems to work fine on most hardware configurations, but 263some poorly designed motherboards may break this feature. 264 265The configuration option CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED forces the 266driver to use normal I/O in all cases. 267 268 2695. Tagged command queueing 270========================== 271 272Queuing more than 1 command at a time to a device allows it to perform 273optimizations based on actual head positions and its mechanical 274characteristics. This feature may also reduce average command latency. 275In order to really gain advantage of this feature, devices must have 276a reasonable cache size (No miracle is to be expected for a low-end 277hard disk with 128 KB or less). 278Some known SCSI devices do not properly support tagged command queuing. 279Generally, firmware revisions that fix this kind of problems are available 280at respective vendor web/ftp sites. 281All I can say is that the hard disks I use on my machines behave well with 282this driver with tagged command queuing enabled: 283 284- IBM S12 0662 285- Conner 1080S 286- Quantum Atlas I 287- Quantum Atlas II 288 289If your controller has NVRAM, you can configure this feature per target 290from the user setup tool. The Tekram Setup program allows to tune the 291maximum number of queued commands up to 32. The Symbios Setup only allows 292to enable or disable this feature. 293 294The maximum number of simultaneous tagged commands queued to a device 295is currently set to 8 by default. This value is suitable for most SCSI 296disks. With large SCSI disks (>= 2GB, cache >= 512KB, average seek time 297<= 10 ms), using a larger value may give better performances. 298 299The sym53c8xx driver supports up to 255 commands per device, and the 300generic ncr53c8xx driver supports up to 64, but using more than 32 is 301generally not worth-while, unless you are using a very large disk or disk 302array. It is noticeable that most of recent hard disks seem not to accept 303more than 64 simultaneous commands. So, using more than 64 queued commands 304is probably just resource wasting. 305 306If your controller does not have NVRAM or if it is managed by the SDMS 307BIOS/SETUP, you can configure tagged queueing feature and device queue 308depths from the boot command-line. For example:: 309 310 ncr53c8xx=tags:4/t2t3q15-t4q7/t1u0q32 311 312will set tagged commands queue depths as follow: 313 314- target 2 all luns on controller 0 --> 15 315- target 3 all luns on controller 0 --> 15 316- target 4 all luns on controller 0 --> 7 317- target 1 lun 0 on controller 1 --> 32 318- all other target/lun --> 4 319 320In some special conditions, some SCSI disk firmwares may return a 321QUEUE FULL status for a SCSI command. This behaviour is managed by the 322driver using the following heuristic: 323 324- Each time a QUEUE FULL status is returned, tagged queue depth is reduced 325 to the actual number of disconnected commands. 326 327- Every 1000 successfully completed SCSI commands, if allowed by the 328 current limit, the maximum number of queueable commands is incremented. 329 330Since QUEUE FULL status reception and handling is resource wasting, the 331driver notifies by default this problem to user by indicating the actual 332number of commands used and their status, as well as its decision on the 333device queue depth change. 334The heuristic used by the driver in handling QUEUE FULL ensures that the 335impact on performances is not too bad. You can get rid of the messages by 336setting verbose level to zero, as follow: 337 3381st method: 339 boot your system using 'ncr53c8xx=verb:0' option. 340 3412nd method: 342 apply "setverbose 0" control command to the proc fs entry 343 corresponding to your controller after boot-up. 344 3456. Parity checking 346================== 347 348The driver supports SCSI parity checking and PCI bus master parity 349checking. These features must be enabled in order to ensure safe data 350transfers. However, some flawed devices or mother boards will have 351problems with parity. You can disable either PCI parity or SCSI parity 352checking by entering appropriate options from the boot command line. 353(See 10: Boot setup commands). 354 3557. Profiling information 356======================== 357 358Profiling information is available through the proc SCSI file system. 359Since gathering profiling information may impact performances, this 360feature is disabled by default and requires a compilation configuration 361option to be set to Y. 362 363The device associated with a host has the following pathname:: 364 365 /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/N (N=0,1,2 ....) 366 367Generally, only 1 board is used on hardware configuration, and that device is:: 368 369 /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 370 371However, if the driver has been made as module, the number of the 372hosts is incremented each time the driver is loaded. 373 374In order to display profiling information, just enter:: 375 376 cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 377 378and you will get something like the following text:: 379 380 General information: 381 Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x2 382 IO port address 0x6000, IRQ number 10 383 Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0x282c000 384 Synchronous transfer period 25, max commands per lun 4 385 Profiling information: 386 num_trans = 18014 387 num_kbytes = 671314 388 num_disc = 25763 389 num_break = 1673 390 num_int = 1685 391 num_fly = 18038 392 ms_setup = 4940 393 ms_data = 369940 394 ms_disc = 183090 395 ms_post = 1320 396 397General information is easy to understand. The device ID and the 398revision ID identify the SCSI chip as follows: 399 400======= ============= =========== 401Chip Device id Revision Id 402======= ============= =========== 403810 0x1 < 0x10 404810A 0x1 >= 0x10 405815 0x4 406825 0x3 < 0x10 407860 0x6 408825A 0x3 >= 0x10 409875 0xf 410895 0xc 411======= ============= =========== 412 413The profiling information is updated upon completion of SCSI commands. 414A data structure is allocated and zeroed when the host adapter is 415attached. So, if the driver is a module, the profile counters are 416cleared each time the driver is loaded. The "clearprof" command 417allows you to clear these counters at any time. 418 419The following counters are available: 420 421("num" prefix means "number of", 422"ms" means milli-seconds) 423 424num_trans 425 Number of completed commands 426 Example above: 18014 completed commands 427 428num_kbytes 429 Number of kbytes transferred 430 Example above: 671 MB transferred 431 432num_disc 433 Number of SCSI disconnections 434 Example above: 25763 SCSI disconnections 435 436num_break 437 number of script interruptions (phase mismatch) 438 Example above: 1673 script interruptions 439 440num_int 441 Number of interrupts other than "on the fly" 442 Example above: 1685 interruptions not "on the fly" 443 444num_fly 445 Number of interrupts "on the fly" 446 Example above: 18038 interruptions "on the fly" 447 448ms_setup 449 Elapsed time for SCSI commands setups 450 Example above: 4.94 seconds 451 452ms_data 453 Elapsed time for data transfers 454 Example above: 369.94 seconds spent for data transfer 455 456ms_disc 457 Elapsed time for SCSI disconnections 458 Example above: 183.09 seconds spent disconnected 459 460ms_post 461 Elapsed time for command post processing 462 (time from SCSI status get to command completion call) 463 Example above: 1.32 seconds spent for post processing 464 465Due to the 1/100 second tick of the system clock, "ms_post" time may 466be wrong. 467 468In the example above, we got 18038 interrupts "on the fly" and only 4691673 script breaks generally due to disconnections inside a segment 470of the scatter list. 471 472 4738. Control commands 474=================== 475 476Control commands can be sent to the driver with write operations to 477the proc SCSI file system. The generic command syntax is the 478following:: 479 480 echo "<verb> <parameters>" >/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 481 (assumes controller number is 0) 482 483Using "all" for "<target>" parameter with the commands below will 484apply to all targets of the SCSI chain (except the controller). 485 486Available commands: 487 4888.1 Set minimum synchronous period factor 489----------------------------------------- 490 491 setsync <target> <period factor> 492 493 :target: target number 494 :period: minimum synchronous period. 495 Maximum speed = 1000/(4*period factor) except for special 496 cases below. 497 498 Specify a period of 255, to force asynchronous transfer mode. 499 500 - 10 means 25 nano-seconds synchronous period 501 - 11 means 30 nano-seconds synchronous period 502 - 12 means 50 nano-seconds synchronous period 503 5048.2 Set wide size 505----------------- 506 507 setwide <target> <size> 508 509 :target: target number 510 :size: 0=8 bits, 1=16bits 511 5128.3 Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands 513---------------------------------------------------- 514 515 settags <target> <tags> 516 517 :target: target number 518 :tags: number of concurrent tagged commands 519 must not be greater than SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS (default: 8) 520 5218.4 Set order type for tagged command 522------------------------------------- 523 524 setorder <order> 525 526 :order: 3 possible values: 527 528 simple: 529 use SIMPLE TAG for all operations (read and write) 530 531 ordered: 532 use ORDERED TAG for all operations 533 534 default: 535 use default tag type, 536 SIMPLE TAG for read operations 537 ORDERED TAG for write operations 538 539 5408.5 Set debug mode 541------------------ 542 543 setdebug <list of debug flags> 544 545 Available debug flags: 546 547 ======== ======================================================== 548 alloc print info about memory allocations (ccb, lcb) 549 queue print info about insertions into the command start queue 550 result print sense data on CHECK CONDITION status 551 scatter print info about the scatter process 552 scripts print info about the script binding process 553 tiny print minimal debugging information 554 timing print timing information of the NCR chip 555 nego print information about SCSI negotiations 556 phase print information on script interruptions 557 ======== ======================================================== 558 559 Use "setdebug" with no argument to reset debug flags. 560 561 5628.6 Clear profile counters 563-------------------------- 564 565 clearprof 566 567 The profile counters are automatically cleared when the amount of 568 data transferred reaches 1000 GB in order to avoid overflow. 569 The "clearprof" command allows you to clear these counters at any time. 570 571 5728.7 Set flag (no_disc) 573---------------------- 574 575 setflag <target> <flag> 576 577 target: target number 578 579 For the moment, only one flag is available: 580 581 no_disc: not allow target to disconnect. 582 583 Do not specify any flag in order to reset the flag. For example: 584 585 setflag 4 586 will reset no_disc flag for target 4, so will allow it disconnections. 587 588 setflag all 589 will allow disconnection for all devices on the SCSI bus. 590 591 5928.8 Set verbose level 593--------------------- 594 595 setverbose #level 596 597 The driver default verbose level is 1. This command allows to change 598 th driver verbose level after boot-up. 599 6008.9 Reset all logical units of a target 601--------------------------------------- 602 603 resetdev <target> 604 605 :target: target number 606 607 The driver will try to send a BUS DEVICE RESET message to the target. 608 (Only supported by the SYM53C8XX driver and provided for test purpose) 609 6108.10 Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target 611----------------------------------------------------- 612 613 cleardev <target> 614 615 :target: target number 616 617 The driver will try to send a ABORT message to all the logical units 618 of the target. 619 620 (Only supported by the SYM53C8XX driver and provided for test purpose) 621 622 6239. Configuration parameters 624=========================== 625 626If the firmware of all your devices is perfect enough, all the 627features supported by the driver can be enabled at start-up. However, 628if only one has a flaw for some SCSI feature, you can disable the 629support by the driver of this feature at linux start-up and enable 630this feature after boot-up only for devices that support it safely. 631 632CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED (default answer: n) 633 Answer "y" if you suspect your mother board to not allow memory mapped I/O. 634 635 May slow down performance a little. This option is required by 636 Linux/PPC and is used no matter what you select here. Linux/PPC 637 suffers no performance loss with this option since all IO is memory 638 mapped anyway. 639 640CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS (default answer: 8) 641 Default tagged command queue depth. 642 643CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS (default answer: 8) 644 This option allows you to specify the maximum number of tagged commands 645 that can be queued to a device. The maximum supported value is 32. 646 647CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC (default answer: 5) 648 This option allows you to specify the frequency in MHz the driver 649 will use at boot time for synchronous data transfer negotiations. 650 This frequency can be changed later with the "setsync" control command. 651 0 means "asynchronous data transfers". 652 653CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_FORCE_SYNC_NEGO (default answer: n) 654 Force synchronous negotiation for all SCSI-2 devices. 655 656 Some SCSI-2 devices do not report this feature in byte 7 of inquiry 657 response but do support it properly (TAMARACK scanners for example). 658 659CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_NO_DISCONNECT (default and only reasonable answer: n) 660 If you suspect a device of yours does not properly support disconnections, 661 you can answer "y". Then, all SCSI devices will never disconnect the bus 662 even while performing long SCSI operations. 663 664CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT 665 Genuine SYMBIOS boards use GPIO0 in output for controller LED and GPIO3 666 bit as a flag indicating singled-ended/differential interface. 667 If all the boards of your system are genuine SYMBIOS boards or use 668 BIOS and drivers from SYMBIOS, you would want to enable this option. 669 670 This option must NOT be enabled if your system has at least one 53C8XX 671 based scsi board with a vendor-specific BIOS. 672 For example, Tekram DC-390/U, DC-390/W and DC-390/F scsi controllers 673 use a vendor-specific BIOS and are known to not use SYMBIOS compatible 674 GPIO wiring. So, this option must not be enabled if your system has 675 such a board installed. 676 677CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_NVRAM_DETECT 678 Enable support for reading the serial NVRAM data on Symbios and 679 some Symbios compatible cards, and Tekram DC390W/U/F cards. Useful for 680 systems with more than one Symbios compatible controller where at least 681 one has a serial NVRAM, or for a system with a mixture of Symbios and 682 Tekram cards. Enables setting the boot order of host adaptors 683 to something other than the default order or "reverse probe" order. 684 Also enables Symbios and Tekram cards to be distinguished so 685 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT may be set in a system with a 686 mixture of Symbios and Tekram cards so the Symbios cards can make use of 687 the full range of Symbios features, differential, led pin, without 688 causing problems for the Tekram card(s). 689 69010. Boot setup commands 691======================= 692 69310.1 Syntax 694----------- 695 696Setup commands can be passed to the driver either at boot time or as a 697string variable using 'insmod'. 698 699A boot setup command for the ncr53c8xx (sym53c8xx) driver begins with the 700driver name "ncr53c8xx="(sym53c8xx). The kernel syntax parser then expects 701an optional list of integers separated with comma followed by an optional 702list of comma-separated strings. Example of boot setup command under lilo 703prompt:: 704 705 lilo: linux root=/dev/hda2 ncr53c8xx=tags:4,sync:10,debug:0x200 706 707- enable tagged commands, up to 4 tagged commands queued. 708- set synchronous negotiation speed to 10 Mega-transfers / second. 709- set DEBUG_NEGO flag. 710 711Since comma seems not to be allowed when defining a string variable using 712'insmod', the driver also accepts <space> as option separator. 713The following command will install driver module with the same options as 714above:: 715 716 insmod ncr53c8xx.o ncr53c8xx="tags:4 sync:10 debug:0x200" 717 718For the moment, the integer list of arguments is discarded by the driver. 719It will be used in the future in order to allow a per controller setup. 720 721Each string argument must be specified as "keyword:value". Only lower-case 722characters and digits are allowed. 723 724In a system that contains multiple 53C8xx adapters insmod will install the 725specified driver on each adapter. To exclude a chip use the 'excl' keyword. 726 727The sequence of commands:: 728 729 insmod sym53c8xx sym53c8xx=excl:0x1400 730 insmod ncr53c8xx 731 732installs the sym53c8xx driver on all adapters except the one at IO port 733address 0x1400 and then installs the ncr53c8xx driver to the adapter at IO 734port address 0x1400. 735 736 73710.2 Available arguments 738------------------------ 739 74010.2.1 Master parity checking 741^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 742 743 ====== ======== 744 mpar:y enabled 745 mpar:n disabled 746 ====== ======== 747 74810.2.2 Scsi parity checking 749^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 750 751 ====== ======== 752 spar:y enabled 753 spar:n disabled 754 ====== ======== 755 75610.2.3 Scsi disconnections 757^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 758 759 ====== ======== 760 disc:y enabled 761 disc:n disabled 762 ====== ======== 763 76410.2.4 Special features 765^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 766 767 Only apply to 810A, 825A, 860, 875 and 895 controllers. 768 Have no effect with other ones. 769 770 ======= ================================================= 771 specf:y (or 1) enabled 772 specf:n (or 0) disabled 773 specf:3 enabled except Memory Write And Invalidate 774 ======= ================================================= 775 776 The default driver setup is 'specf:3'. As a consequence, option 'specf:y' 777 must be specified in the boot setup command to enable Memory Write And 778 Invalidate. 779 78010.2.5 Ultra SCSI support 781^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 782 783 Only apply to 860, 875, 895, 895a, 896, 1010 and 1010_66 controllers. 784 Have no effect with other ones. 785 786 ======= ======================== 787 ultra:n All ultra speeds enabled 788 ultra:2 Ultra2 enabled 789 ultra:1 Ultra enabled 790 ultra:0 Ultra speeds disabled 791 ======= ======================== 792 79310.2.6 Default number of tagged commands 794^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 795 796 ======================= =============================== 797 tags:0 (or tags:1 ) tagged command queuing disabled 798 tags:#tags (#tags > 1) tagged command queuing enabled 799 ======================= =============================== 800 801 #tags will be truncated to the max queued commands configuration parameter. 802 This option also allows to specify a command queue depth for each device 803 that support tagged command queueing. 804 805 Example:: 806 807 ncr53c8xx=tags:10/t2t3q16-t5q24/t1u2q32 808 809 will set devices queue depth as follow: 810 811 - controller #0 target #2 and target #3 -> 16 commands, 812 - controller #0 target #5 -> 24 commands, 813 - controller #1 target #1 logical unit #2 -> 32 commands, 814 - all other logical units (all targets, all controllers) -> 10 commands. 815 81610.2.7 Default synchronous period factor 817^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 818 819============ ======================================================== 820sync:255 disabled (asynchronous transfer mode) 821sync:#factor 822 ============ ======================================= 823 #factor = 10 Ultra-2 SCSI 40 Mega-transfers / second 824 #factor = 11 Ultra-2 SCSI 33 Mega-transfers / second 825 #factor < 25 Ultra SCSI 20 Mega-transfers / second 826 #factor < 50 Fast SCSI-2 827 ============ ======================================= 828============ ======================================================== 829 830 In all cases, the driver will use the minimum transfer period supported by 831 controllers according to NCR53C8XX chip type. 832 83310.2.8 Negotiate synchronous with all devices 834^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 835 (force sync nego) 836 837 ===== ========= 838 fsn:y enabled 839 fsn:n disabled 840 ===== ========= 841 84210.2.9 Verbosity level 843^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 844 845 ====== ========= 846 verb:0 minimal 847 verb:1 normal 848 verb:2 too much 849 ====== ========= 850 85110.2.10 Debug mode 852^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 853 854======== ================================================================== 855debug:0 clear debug flags 856debug:#x set debug flags 857 858 #x is an integer value combining the following power-of-2 values: 859 860 ============= ====== 861 DEBUG_ALLOC 0x1 862 DEBUG_PHASE 0x2 863 DEBUG_POLL 0x4 864 DEBUG_QUEUE 0x8 865 DEBUG_RESULT 0x10 866 DEBUG_SCATTER 0x20 867 DEBUG_SCRIPT 0x40 868 DEBUG_TINY 0x80 869 DEBUG_TIMING 0x100 870 DEBUG_NEGO 0x200 871 DEBUG_TAGS 0x400 872 DEBUG_FREEZE 0x800 873 DEBUG_RESTART 0x1000 874 ============= ====== 875======== ================================================================== 876 877 You can play safely with DEBUG_NEGO. However, some of these flags may 878 generate bunches of syslog messages. 879 88010.2.11 Burst max 881^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 882 883========= ================================================================== 884burst:0 burst disabled 885burst:255 get burst length from initial IO register settings. 886burst:#x burst enabled (1<<#x burst transfers max) 887 888 #x is an integer value which is log base 2 of the burst transfers 889 max. 890 891 The NCR53C875 and NCR53C825A support up to 128 burst transfers 892 (#x = 7). 893 894 Other chips only support up to 16 (#x = 4). 895 896 This is a maximum value. The driver set the burst length according 897 to chip and revision ids. By default the driver uses the maximum 898 value supported by the chip. 899========= ================================================================== 900 90110.2.12 LED support 902^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 903 904 ===== =================== 905 led:1 enable LED support 906 led:0 disable LED support 907 ===== =================== 908 909 Donnot enable LED support if your scsi board does not use SDMS BIOS. 910 (See 'Configuration parameters') 911 91210.2.13 Max wide 913^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 914 915 ====== =================== 916 wide:1 wide scsi enabled 917 wide:0 wide scsi disabled 918 ====== =================== 919 920 Some scsi boards use a 875 (ultra wide) and only supply narrow connectors. 921 If you have connected a wide device with a 50 pins to 68 pins cable 922 converter, any accepted wide negotiation will break further data transfers. 923 In such a case, using "wide:0" in the bootup command will be helpful. 924 92510.2.14 Differential mode 926^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 927 928 ====== ================================= 929 diff:0 never set up diff mode 930 diff:1 set up diff mode if BIOS set it 931 diff:2 always set up diff mode 932 diff:3 set diff mode if GPIO3 is not set 933 ====== ================================= 934 93510.2.15 IRQ mode 936^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 937 938 ========= ======================================================== 939 irqm:0 always open drain 940 irqm:1 same as initial settings (assumed BIOS settings) 941 irqm:2 always totem pole 942 irqm:0x10 driver will not use IRQF_SHARED flag when requesting irq 943 ========= ======================================================== 944 945 (Bits 0x10 and 0x20 can be combined with hardware irq mode option) 946 94710.2.16 Reverse probe 948^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 949 950 ========= ======================================================== 951 revprob:n probe chip ids from the PCI configuration in this order: 952 810, 815, 820, 860, 875, 885, 895, 896 953 revprob:y probe chip ids in the reverse order. 954 ========= ======================================================== 955 95610.2.17 Fix up PCI configuration space 957^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 958 pcifix:<option bits> 959 960 Available option bits: 961 962 === =============================================================== 963 0x0 No attempt to fix PCI configuration space registers values. 964 0x1 Set PCI cache-line size register if not set. 965 0x2 Set write and invalidate bit in PCI command register. 966 0x4 Increase if necessary PCI latency timer according to burst max. 967 === =============================================================== 968 969 Use 'pcifix:7' in order to allow the driver to fix up all PCI features. 970 97110.2.18 Serial NVRAM 972^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 973 974 ======= ========================================= 975 nvram:n do not look for serial NVRAM 976 nvram:y test controllers for onboard serial NVRAM 977 ======= ========================================= 978 979 (alternate binary form) 980 mvram=<bits options> 981 982 ==== ================================================================= 983 0x01 look for NVRAM (equivalent to nvram=y) 984 0x02 ignore NVRAM "Synchronous negotiation" parameters for all devices 985 0x04 ignore NVRAM "Wide negotiation" parameter for all devices 986 0x08 ignore NVRAM "Scan at boot time" parameter for all devices 987 0x80 also attach controllers set to OFF in the NVRAM (sym53c8xx only) 988 ==== ================================================================= 989 99010.2.19 Check SCSI BUS 991^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 992 993 buschk:<option bits> 994 995 Available option bits: 996 997 ==== ================================================ 998 0x0: No check. 999 0x1: Check and do not attach the controller on error. 1000 0x2: Check and just warn on error. 1001 0x4: Disable SCSI bus integrity checking. 1002 ==== ================================================ 1003 100410.2.20 Exclude a host from being attached 1005^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1006 1007 excl=<io_address> 1008 1009 Prevent host at a given io address from being attached. 1010 For example 'ncr53c8xx=excl:0xb400,excl:0xc000' indicate to the 1011 ncr53c8xx driver not to attach hosts at address 0xb400 and 0xc000. 1012 101310.2.21 Suggest a default SCSI id for hosts 1014^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1015 1016 ========== ========================================== 1017 hostid:255 no id suggested. 1018 hostid:#x (0 < x < 7) x suggested for hosts SCSI id. 1019 ========== ========================================== 1020 1021 If a host SCSI id is available from the NVRAM, the driver will ignore 1022 any value suggested as boot option. Otherwise, if a suggested value 1023 different from 255 has been supplied, it will use it. Otherwise, it will 1024 try to deduce the value previously set in the hardware and use value 1025 7 if the hardware value is zero. 1026 102710.2.22 Enable use of IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION 1028^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1029 1030 (only supported by the sym53c8xx driver. See 10.7 for more details) 1031 1032======= ================================================================= 1033iarb:0 do not use this feature. 1034iarb:#x use this feature according to bit fields as follow: 1035 1036 ========= ======================================================= 1037 bit 0 (1) enable IARB each time the initiator has been reselected 1038 when it arbitrated for the SCSI BUS. 1039 (#x >> 4) maximum number of successive settings of IARB if the 1040 initiator win arbitration and it has other commands 1041 to send to a device. 1042 ========= ======================================================= 1043======= ================================================================= 1044 1045Boot fail safe 1046 safe:y load the following assumed fail safe initial setup 1047 1048 ======================== ====================== ========== 1049 master parity disabled mpar:n 1050 scsi parity enabled spar:y 1051 disconnections not allowed disc:n 1052 special features disabled specf:n 1053 ultra scsi disabled ultra:n 1054 force sync negotiation disabled fsn:n 1055 reverse probe disabled revprob:n 1056 PCI fix up disabled pcifix:0 1057 serial NVRAM enabled nvram:y 1058 verbosity level 2 verb:2 1059 tagged command queuing disabled tags:0 1060 synchronous negotiation disabled sync:255 1061 debug flags none debug:0 1062 burst length from BIOS settings burst:255 1063 LED support disabled led:0 1064 wide support disabled wide:0 1065 settle time 10 seconds settle:10 1066 differential support from BIOS settings diff:1 1067 irq mode from BIOS settings irqm:1 1068 SCSI BUS check do not attach on error buschk:1 1069 immediate arbitration disabled iarb:0 1070 ======================== ====================== ========== 1071 107210.3 Advised boot setup commands 1073^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1074 1075If the driver has been configured with default options, the equivalent 1076boot setup is:: 1077 1078 ncr53c8xx=mpar:y,spar:y,disc:y,specf:3,fsn:n,ultra:2,fsn:n,revprob:n,verb:1\ 1079 tags:0,sync:50,debug:0,burst:7,led:0,wide:1,settle:2,diff:0,irqm:0 1080 1081For an installation diskette or a safe but not fast system, 1082boot setup can be:: 1083 1084 ncr53c8xx=safe:y,mpar:y,disc:y 1085 ncr53c8xx=safe:y,disc:y 1086 ncr53c8xx=safe:y,mpar:y 1087 ncr53c8xx=safe:y 1088 1089My personal system works flawlessly with the following equivalent setup:: 1090 1091 ncr53c8xx=mpar:y,spar:y,disc:y,specf:1,fsn:n,ultra:2,fsn:n,revprob:n,verb:1\ 1092 tags:32,sync:12,debug:0,burst:7,led:1,wide:1,settle:2,diff:0,irqm:0 1093 1094The driver prints its actual setup when verbosity level is 2. You can try 1095"ncr53c8xx=verb:2" to get the "static" setup of the driver, or add "verb:2" 1096to your boot setup command in order to check the actual setup the driver is 1097using. 1098 109910.4 PCI configuration fix-up boot option 1100----------------------------------------- 1101 1102pcifix:<option bits> 1103 1104Available option bits: 1105 1106 === ===================================================== 1107 0x1 Set PCI cache-line size register if not set. 1108 0x2 Set write and invalidate bit in PCI command register. 1109 === ===================================================== 1110 1111Use 'pcifix:3' in order to allow the driver to fix both PCI features. 1112 1113These options only apply to new SYMBIOS chips 810A, 825A, 860, 875 1114and 895 and are only supported for Pentium and 486 class processors. 1115Recent SYMBIOS 53C8XX scsi processors are able to use PCI read multiple 1116and PCI write and invalidate commands. These features require the 1117cache line size register to be properly set in the PCI configuration 1118space of the chips. On the other hand, chips will use PCI write and 1119invalidate commands only if the corresponding bit is set to 1 in the 1120PCI command register. 1121 1122Not all PCI bioses set the PCI cache line register and the PCI write and 1123invalidate bit in the PCI configuration space of 53C8XX chips. 1124Optimized PCI accesses may be broken for some PCI/memory controllers or 1125make problems with some PCI boards. 1126 1127This fix-up worked flawlessly on my previous system. 1128(MB Triton HX / 53C875 / 53C810A) 1129I use these options at my own risks as you will do if you decide to 1130use them too. 1131 1132 113310.5 Serial NVRAM support boot option 1134------------------------------------- 1135 1136======= ========================================= 1137nvram:n do not look for serial NVRAM 1138nvram:y test controllers for onboard serial NVRAM 1139======= ========================================= 1140 1141This option can also been entered as an hexadecimal value that allows 1142to control what information the driver will get from the NVRAM and what 1143information it will ignore. 1144For details see '17. Serial NVRAM support'. 1145 1146When this option is enabled, the driver tries to detect all boards using 1147a Serial NVRAM. This memory is used to hold user set up parameters. 1148 1149The parameters the driver is able to get from the NVRAM depend on the 1150data format used, as follow: 1151 1152+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1153| |Tekram format |Symbios format| 1154+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1155|General and host parameters | | | 1156+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1157| * Boot order | N | Y | 1158+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1159| * Host SCSI ID | Y | Y | 1160+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1161| * SCSI parity checking | Y | Y | 1162+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1163| * Verbose boot messages | N | Y | 1164+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1165|SCSI devices parameters | 1166+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1167| * Synchronous transfer speed | Y | Y | 1168+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1169| * Wide 16 / Narrow | Y | Y | 1170+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1171| * Tagged Command Queuing | Y | Y | 1172| enabled | | | 1173+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1174| * Disconnections enabled | Y | Y | 1175+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1176| * Scan at boot time | N | Y | 1177+-------------------------------+------------------+--------------+ 1178 1179In order to speed up the system boot, for each device configured without 1180the "scan at boot time" option, the driver forces an error on the 1181first TEST UNIT READY command received for this device. 1182 1183Some SDMS BIOS revisions seem to be unable to boot cleanly with very fast 1184hard disks. In such a situation you cannot configure the NVRAM with 1185optimized parameters value. 1186 1187The 'nvram' boot option can be entered in hexadecimal form in order 1188to ignore some options configured in the NVRAM, as follow: 1189 1190mvram=<bits options> 1191 1192 ==== ================================================================= 1193 0x01 look for NVRAM (equivalent to nvram=y) 1194 0x02 ignore NVRAM "Synchronous negotiation" parameters for all devices 1195 0x04 ignore NVRAM "Wide negotiation" parameter for all devices 1196 0x08 ignore NVRAM "Scan at boot time" parameter for all devices 1197 0x80 also attach controllers set to OFF in the NVRAM (sym53c8xx only) 1198 ==== ================================================================= 1199 1200Option 0x80 is only supported by the sym53c8xx driver and is disabled by 1201default. Result is that, by default (option not set), the sym53c8xx driver 1202will not attach controllers set to OFF in the NVRAM. 1203 1204The ncr53c8xx always tries to attach all the controllers. Option 0x80 has 1205not been added to the ncr53c8xx driver, since it has been reported to 1206confuse users who use this driver since a long time. If you desire a 1207controller not to be attached by the ncr53c8xx driver at Linux boot, you 1208must use the 'excl' driver boot option. 1209 121010.6 SCSI BUS checking boot option. 1211^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1212 1213When this option is set to a non-zero value, the driver checks SCSI lines 1214logic state, 100 micro-seconds after having asserted the SCSI RESET line. 1215The driver just reads SCSI lines and checks all lines read FALSE except RESET. 1216Since SCSI devices shall release the BUS at most 800 nano-seconds after SCSI 1217RESET has been asserted, any signal to TRUE may indicate a SCSI BUS problem. 1218Unfortunately, the following common SCSI BUS problems are not detected: 1219 1220- Only 1 terminator installed. 1221- Misplaced terminators. 1222- Bad quality terminators. 1223 1224On the other hand, either bad cabling, broken devices, not conformant 1225devices, ... may cause a SCSI signal to be wrong when te driver reads it. 1226 122710.7 IMMEDIATE ARBITRATION boot option 1228^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1229 1230This option is only supported by the SYM53C8XX driver (not by the NCR53C8XX). 1231 1232SYMBIOS 53C8XX chips are able to arbitrate for the SCSI BUS as soon as they 1233have detected an expected disconnection (BUS FREE PHASE). For this process 1234to be started, bit 1 of SCNTL1 IO register must be set when the chip is 1235connected to the SCSI BUS. 1236 1237When this feature has been enabled for the current connection, the chip has 1238every chance to win arbitration if only devices with lower priority are 1239competing for the SCSI BUS. By the way, when the chip is using SCSI id 7, 1240then it will for sure win the next SCSI BUS arbitration. 1241 1242Since, there is no way to know what devices are trying to arbitrate for the 1243BUS, using this feature can be extremely unfair. So, you are not advised 1244to enable it, or at most enable this feature for the case the chip lost 1245the previous arbitration (boot option 'iarb:1'). 1246 1247This feature has the following advantages: 1248 1249a) Allow the initiator with ID 7 to win arbitration when it wants so. 1250b) Overlap at least 4 micro-seconds of arbitration time with the execution 1251 of SCRIPTS that deal with the end of the current connection and that 1252 starts the next job. 1253 1254Hmmm... But (a) may just prevent other devices from reselecting the initiator, 1255and delay data transfers or status/completions, and (b) may just waste 1256SCSI BUS bandwidth if the SCRIPTS execution lasts more than 4 micro-seconds. 1257 1258The use of IARB needs the SCSI_NCR_IARB_SUPPORT option to have been defined 1259at compile time and the 'iarb' boot option to have been set to a non zero 1260value at boot time. It is not that useful for real work, but can be used 1261to stress SCSI devices or for some applications that can gain advantage of 1262it. By the way, if you experience badnesses like 'unexpected disconnections', 1263'bad reselections', etc... when using IARB on heavy IO load, you should not 1264be surprised, because force-feeding anything and blocking its arse at the 1265same time cannot work for a long time. :-)) 1266 1267 126811. Some constants and flags of the ncr53c8xx.h header file 1269=========================================================== 1270 1271Some of these are defined from the configuration parameters. To 1272change other "defines", you must edit the header file. Do that only 1273if you know what you are doing. 1274 1275SCSI_NCR_SETUP_SPECIAL_FEATURES (default: defined) 1276 If defined, the driver will enable some special features according 1277 to chip and revision id. 1278 1279 For 810A, 860, 825A, 875 and 895 scsi chips, this option enables 1280 support of features that reduce load of PCI bus and memory accesses 1281 during scsi transfer processing: burst op-code fetch, read multiple, 1282 read line, prefetch, cache line, write and invalidate, 1283 burst 128 (875 only), large dma fifo (875 only), offset 16 (875 only). 1284 Can be changed by the following boot setup command:: 1285 1286 ncr53c8xx=specf:n 1287 1288SCSI_NCR_IOMAPPED (default: not defined) 1289 If defined, normal I/O is forced. 1290 1291SCSI_NCR_SHARE_IRQ (default: defined) 1292 If defined, request shared IRQ. 1293 1294SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS (default: 8) 1295 Maximum number of simultaneous tagged commands to a device. 1296 1297 Can be changed by "settags <target> <maxtags>" 1298 1299SCSI_NCR_SETUP_DEFAULT_SYNC (default: 50) 1300 Transfer period factor the driver will use at boot time for synchronous 1301 negotiation. 0 means asynchronous. 1302 1303 Can be changed by "setsync <target> <period factor>" 1304 1305SCSI_NCR_SETUP_DEFAULT_TAGS (default: 8) 1306 Default number of simultaneous tagged commands to a device. 1307 1308 < 1 means tagged command queuing disabled at start-up. 1309 1310SCSI_NCR_ALWAYS_SIMPLE_TAG (default: defined) 1311 Use SIMPLE TAG for read and write commands. 1312 1313 Can be changed by "setorder <ordered|simple|default>" 1314 1315SCSI_NCR_SETUP_DISCONNECTION (default: defined) 1316 If defined, targets are allowed to disconnect. 1317 1318SCSI_NCR_SETUP_FORCE_SYNC_NEGO (default: not defined) 1319 If defined, synchronous negotiation is tried for all SCSI-2 devices. 1320 1321 Can be changed by "setsync <target> <period>" 1322 1323SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY (default: defined) 1324 If defined, master parity checking is enabled. 1325 1326SCSI_NCR_SETUP_SCSI_PARITY (default: defined) 1327 If defined, SCSI parity checking is enabled. 1328 1329SCSI_NCR_PROFILE_SUPPORT (default: not defined) 1330 If defined, profiling information is gathered. 1331 1332SCSI_NCR_MAX_SCATTER (default: 128) 1333 Scatter list size of the driver ccb. 1334 1335SCSI_NCR_MAX_TARGET (default: 16) 1336 Max number of targets per host. 1337 1338SCSI_NCR_MAX_HOST (default: 2) 1339 Max number of host controllers. 1340 1341SCSI_NCR_SETTLE_TIME (default: 2) 1342 Number of seconds the driver will wait after reset. 1343 1344SCSI_NCR_TIMEOUT_ALERT (default: 3) 1345 If a pending command will time out after this amount of seconds, 1346 an ordered tag is used for the next command. 1347 1348 Avoids timeouts for unordered tagged commands. 1349 1350SCSI_NCR_CAN_QUEUE (default: 7*SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS) 1351 Max number of commands that can be queued to a host. 1352 1353SCSI_NCR_CMD_PER_LUN (default: SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS) 1354 Max number of commands queued to a host for a device. 1355 1356SCSI_NCR_SG_TABLESIZE (default: SCSI_NCR_MAX_SCATTER-1) 1357 Max size of the Linux scatter/gather list. 1358 1359SCSI_NCR_MAX_LUN (default: 8) 1360 Max number of LUNs per target. 1361 1362 136312. Installation 1364================ 1365 1366This driver is part of the linux kernel distribution. 1367Driver files are located in the sub-directory "drivers/scsi" of the 1368kernel source tree. 1369 1370Driver files:: 1371 1372 README.ncr53c8xx : this file 1373 ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx : change log 1374 ncr53c8xx.h : definitions 1375 ncr53c8xx.c : the driver code 1376 1377New driver versions are made available separately in order to allow testing 1378changes and new features prior to including them into the linux kernel 1379distribution. The following URL provides information on latest available 1380patches: 1381 1382 ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/gerard-roudier/README 1383 1384 138513. Architecture dependent features 1386=================================== 1387 1388<Not yet written> 1389 1390 139114. Known problems 1392================== 1393 139414.1 Tagged commands with Iomega Jaz device 1395------------------------------------------- 1396 1397I have not tried this device, however it has been reported to me the 1398following: This device is capable of Tagged command queuing. However 1399while spinning up, it rejects Tagged commands. This behaviour is 1400conforms to 6.8.2 of SCSI-2 specifications. The current behaviour of 1401the driver in that situation is not satisfying. So do not enable 1402Tagged command queuing for devices that are able to spin down. The 1403other problem that may appear is timeouts. The only way to avoid 1404timeouts seems to edit linux/drivers/scsi/sd.c and to increase the 1405current timeout values. 1406 140714.2 Device names change when another controller is added 1408--------------------------------------------------------- 1409 1410When you add a new NCR53C8XX chip based controller to a system that already 1411has one or more controllers of this family, it may happen that the order 1412the driver registers them to the kernel causes problems due to device 1413name changes. 1414When at least one controller uses NvRAM, SDMS BIOS version 4 allows you to 1415define the order the BIOS will scan the scsi boards. The driver attaches 1416controllers according to BIOS information if NvRAM detect option is set. 1417 1418If your controllers do not have NvRAM, you can: 1419 1420- Ask the driver to probe chip ids in reverse order from the boot command 1421 line: ncr53c8xx=revprob:y 1422- Make appropriate changes in the fstab. 1423- Use the 'scsidev' tool from Eric Youngdale. 1424 142514.3 Using only 8 bit devices with a WIDE SCSI controller 1426--------------------------------------------------------- 1427 1428When only 8 bit NARROW devices are connected to a 16 bit WIDE SCSI controller, 1429you must ensure that lines of the wide part of the SCSI BUS are pulled-up. 1430This can be achieved by ENABLING the WIDE TERMINATOR portion of the SCSI 1431controller card. 1432 1433The TYAN 1365 documentation revision 1.2 is not correct about such settings. 1434(page 10, figure 3.3). 1435 143614.4 Possible data corruption during a Memory Write and Invalidate 1437------------------------------------------------------------------ 1438 1439This problem is described in SYMBIOS DEL 397, Part Number 69-039241, ITEM 4. 1440 1441In some complex situations, 53C875 chips revision <= 3 may start a PCI 1442Write and Invalidate Command at a not cache-line-aligned 4 DWORDS boundary. 1443This is only possible when Cache Line Size is 8 DWORDS or greater. 1444Pentium systems use a 8 DWORDS cache line size and so are concerned by 1445this chip bug, unlike i486 systems that use a 4 DWORDS cache line size. 1446 1447When this situation occurs, the chip may complete the Write and Invalidate 1448command after having only filled part of the last cache line involved in 1449the transfer, leaving to data corruption the remainder of this cache line. 1450 1451Not using Write And Invalidate obviously gets rid of this chip bug, and so 1452it is now the default setting of the driver. 1453However, for people like me who want to enable this feature, I have added 1454part of a work-around suggested by SYMBIOS. This work-around resets the 1455addressing logic when the DATA IN phase is entered and so prevents the bug 1456from being triggered for the first SCSI MOVE of the phase. This work-around 1457should be enough according to the following: 1458 1459The only driver internal data structure that is greater than 8 DWORDS and 1460that is moved by the SCRIPTS processor is the 'CCB header' that contains 1461the context of the SCSI transfer. This data structure is aligned on 8 DWORDS 1462boundary (Pentium Cache Line Size), and so is immune to this chip bug, at 1463least on Pentium systems. 1464 1465But the conditions of this bug can be met when a SCSI read command is 1466performed using a buffer that is 4 DWORDS but not cache-line aligned. 1467This cannot happen under Linux when scatter/gather lists are used since 1468they only refer to system buffers that are well aligned. So, a work around 1469may only be needed under Linux when a scatter/gather list is not used and 1470when the SCSI DATA IN phase is reentered after a phase mismatch. 1471 147215. SCSI problem troubleshooting 1473================================ 1474 147515.1 Problem tracking 1476--------------------- 1477 1478Most SCSI problems are due to a non conformant SCSI bus or to buggy 1479devices. If unfortunately you have SCSI problems, you can check the 1480following things: 1481 1482- SCSI bus cables 1483- terminations at both end of the SCSI chain 1484- linux syslog messages (some of them may help you) 1485 1486If you do not find the source of problems, you can configure the 1487driver with no features enabled. 1488 1489- only asynchronous data transfers 1490- tagged commands disabled 1491- disconnections not allowed 1492 1493Now, if your SCSI bus is ok, your system have every chance to work 1494with this safe configuration but performances will not be optimal. 1495 1496If it still fails, then you can send your problem description to 1497appropriate mailing lists or news-groups. Send me a copy in order to 1498be sure I will receive it. Obviously, a bug in the driver code is 1499possible. 1500 1501 My email address: Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr> 1502 1503Allowing disconnections is important if you use several devices on 1504your SCSI bus but often causes problems with buggy devices. 1505Synchronous data transfers increases throughput of fast devices like 1506hard disks. Good SCSI hard disks with a large cache gain advantage of 1507tagged commands queuing. 1508 1509Try to enable one feature at a time with control commands. For example: 1510 1511:: 1512 1513 echo "setsync all 25" >/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 1514 1515Will enable fast synchronous data transfer negotiation for all targets. 1516 1517:: 1518 1519 echo "setflag 3" >/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 1520 1521Will reset flags (no_disc) for target 3, and so will allow it to disconnect 1522the SCSI Bus. 1523 1524:: 1525 1526 echo "settags 3 8" >/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 1527 1528Will enable tagged command queuing for target 3 if that device supports it. 1529 1530Once you have found the device and the feature that cause problems, just 1531disable that feature for that device. 1532 153315.2 Understanding hardware error reports 1534----------------------------------------- 1535 1536When the driver detects an unexpected error condition, it may display a 1537message of the following pattern:: 1538 1539 sym53c876-0:1: ERROR (0:48) (1-21-65) (f/95) @ (script 7c0:19000000). 1540 sym53c876-0: script cmd = 19000000 1541 sym53c876-0: regdump: da 10 80 95 47 0f 01 07 75 01 81 21 80 01 09 00. 1542 1543Some fields in such a message may help you understand the cause of the 1544problem, as follows:: 1545 1546 sym53c876-0:1: ERROR (0:48) (1-21-65) (f/95) @ (script 7c0:19000000). 1547 ............A.........B.C....D.E..F....G.H.......I.....J...K....... 1548 1549Field A : target number. 1550 SCSI ID of the device the controller was talking with at the moment the 1551 error occurs. 1552 1553Field B : DSTAT io register (DMA STATUS) 1554 ======== ============================================================= 1555 Bit 0x40 MDPE Master Data Parity Error 1556 Data parity error detected on the PCI BUS. 1557 Bit 0x20 BF Bus Fault 1558 PCI bus fault condition detected 1559 Bit 0x01 IID Illegal Instruction Detected 1560 Set by the chip when it detects an Illegal Instruction format 1561 on some condition that makes an instruction illegal. 1562 Bit 0x80 DFE Dma Fifo Empty 1563 Pure status bit that does not indicate an error. 1564 ======== ============================================================= 1565 1566 If the reported DSTAT value contains a combination of MDPE (0x40), 1567 BF (0x20), then the cause may be likely due to a PCI BUS problem. 1568 1569Field C : SIST io register (SCSI Interrupt Status) 1570 ======== ================================================================== 1571 Bit 0x08 SGE SCSI GROSS ERROR 1572 Indicates that the chip detected a severe error condition 1573 on the SCSI BUS that prevents the SCSI protocol from functioning 1574 properly. 1575 Bit 0x04 UDC Unexpected Disconnection 1576 Indicates that the device released the SCSI BUS when the chip 1577 was not expecting this to happen. A device may behave so to 1578 indicate the SCSI initiator that an error condition not reportable 1579 using the SCSI protocol has occurred. 1580 Bit 0x02 RST SCSI BUS Reset 1581 Generally SCSI targets do not reset the SCSI BUS, although any 1582 device on the BUS can reset it at any time. 1583 Bit 0x01 PAR Parity 1584 SCSI parity error detected. 1585 ======== ================================================================== 1586 1587 On a faulty SCSI BUS, any error condition among SGE (0x08), UDC (0x04) and 1588 PAR (0x01) may be detected by the chip. If your SCSI system sometimes 1589 encounters such error conditions, especially SCSI GROSS ERROR, then a SCSI 1590 BUS problem is likely the cause of these errors. 1591 1592For fields D,E,F,G and H, you may look into the sym53c8xx_defs.h file 1593that contains some minimal comments on IO register bits. 1594 1595Field D : SOCL Scsi Output Control Latch 1596 This register reflects the state of the SCSI control lines the 1597 chip want to drive or compare against. 1598 1599Field E : SBCL Scsi Bus Control Lines 1600 Actual value of control lines on the SCSI BUS. 1601 1602Field F : SBDL Scsi Bus Data Lines 1603 Actual value of data lines on the SCSI BUS. 1604 1605Field G : SXFER SCSI Transfer 1606 Contains the setting of the Synchronous Period for output and 1607 the current Synchronous offset (offset 0 means asynchronous). 1608 1609Field H : SCNTL3 Scsi Control Register 3 1610 Contains the setting of timing values for both asynchronous and 1611 synchronous data transfers. 1612 1613Understanding Fields I, J, K and dumps requires to have good knowledge of 1614SCSI standards, chip cores functionnals and internal driver data structures. 1615You are not required to decode and understand them, unless you want to help 1616maintain the driver code. 1617 161816. Synchronous transfer negotiation tables 1619=========================================== 1620 1621Tables below have been created by calling the routine the driver uses 1622for synchronisation negotiation timing calculation and chip setting. 1623The first table corresponds to Ultra chips 53875 and 53C860 with 80 MHz 1624clock and 5 clock divisors. 1625The second one has been calculated by setting the scsi clock to 40 Mhz 1626and using 4 clock divisors and so applies to all NCR53C8XX chips in fast 1627SCSI-2 mode. 1628 1629Periods are in nano-seconds and speeds are in Mega-transfers per second. 16301 Mega-transfers/second means 1 MB/s with 8 bits SCSI and 2 MB/s with 1631Wide16 SCSI. 1632 163316.1 Synchronous timings for 53C895, 53C875 and 53C860 SCSI controllers 1634 1635+-----------------------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1636|Negotiated |NCR settings | | 1637+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ | 1638|Factor |Period |Speed |Period |Speed | | 1639+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1640|10 | 25 |40.000 | 25 |40.000 | (53C895 only)| 1641+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1642|11 | 30.2 |33.112 | 31.25 |32.000 | (53C895 only)| 1643+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1644|12 | 50 |20.000 | 50 |20.000 | | 1645+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1646|13 | 52 |19.230 | 62 |16.000 | | 1647+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1648|14 | 56 |17.857 | 62 |16.000 | | 1649+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1650|15 | 60 |16.666 | 62 |16.000 | | 1651+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1652|16 | 64 |15.625 | 75 |13.333 | | 1653+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1654|17 | 68 |14.705 | 75 |13.333 | | 1655+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1656|18 | 72 |13.888 | 75 |13.333 | | 1657+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1658|19 | 76 |13.157 | 87 |11.428 | | 1659+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1660|20 | 80 |12.500 | 87 |11.428 | | 1661+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1662|21 | 84 |11.904 | 87 |11.428 | | 1663+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1664|22 | 88 |11.363 | 93 |10.666 | | 1665+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1666|23 | 92 |10.869 | 93 |10.666 | | 1667+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1668|24 | 96 |10.416 |100 |10.000 | | 1669+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1670|25 |100 |10.000 |100 |10.000 | | 1671+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1672|26 |104 | 9.615 |112 | 8.888 | | 1673+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1674|27 |108 | 9.259 |112 | 8.888 | | 1675+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1676|28 |112 | 8.928 |112 | 8.888 | | 1677+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1678|29 |116 | 8.620 |125 | 8.000 | | 1679+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1680|30 |120 | 8.333 |125 | 8.000 | | 1681+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1682|31 |124 | 8.064 |125 | 8.000 | | 1683+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1684|32 |128 | 7.812 |131 | 7.619 | | 1685+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1686|33 |132 | 7.575 |150 | 6.666 | | 1687+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1688|34 |136 | 7.352 |150 | 6.666 | | 1689+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1690|35 |140 | 7.142 |150 | 6.666 | | 1691+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1692|36 |144 | 6.944 |150 | 6.666 | | 1693+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1694|37 |148 | 6.756 |150 | 6.666 | | 1695+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1696|38 |152 | 6.578 |175 | 5.714 | | 1697+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1698|39 |156 | 6.410 |175 | 5.714 | | 1699+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1700|40 |160 | 6.250 |175 | 5.714 | | 1701+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1702|41 |164 | 6.097 |175 | 5.714 | | 1703+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1704|42 |168 | 5.952 |175 | 5.714 | | 1705+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1706|43 |172 | 5.813 |175 | 5.714 | | 1707+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1708|44 |176 | 5.681 |187 | 5.333 | | 1709+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1710|45 |180 | 5.555 |187 | 5.333 | | 1711+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1712|46 |184 | 5.434 |187 | 5.333 | | 1713+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1714|47 |188 | 5.319 |200 | 5.000 | | 1715+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1716|48 |192 | 5.208 |200 | 5.000 | | 1717+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1718|49 |196 | 5.102 |200 | 5.000 | | 1719+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+--------------+ 1720 172116.2 Synchronous timings for fast SCSI-2 53C8XX controllers 1722 1723+-----------------------------+----------------+ 1724|Negotiated |NCR settings | 1725+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1726|Factor |Period |Speed |Period |Speed | 1727+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1728|25 |100 |10.000 |100 |10.000 | 1729+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1730|26 |104 |9.615 |125 | 8.000 | 1731+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1732|27 |108 |9.259 |125 | 8.000 | 1733+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1734|28 |112 |8.928 |125 | 8.000 | 1735+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1736|29 |116 |8.620 |125 | 8.000 | 1737+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1738|30 |120 |8.333 |125 | 8.000 | 1739+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1740|31 |124 |8.064 |125 | 8.000 | 1741+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1742|32 |128 |7.812 |131 | 7.619 | 1743+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1744|33 |132 |7.575 |150 | 6.666 | 1745+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1746|34 |136 |7.352 |150 | 6.666 | 1747+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1748|35 |140 |7.142 |150 | 6.666 | 1749+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1750|36 |144 |6.944 |150 | 6.666 | 1751+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1752|37 |148 |6.756 |150 | 6.666 | 1753+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1754|38 |152 |6.578 |175 | 5.714 | 1755+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1756|39 |156 |6.410 |175 | 5.714 | 1757+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1758|40 |160 |6.250 |175 | 5.714 | 1759+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1760|41 |164 |6.097 |175 | 5.714 | 1761+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1762|42 |168 |5.952 |175 | 5.714 | 1763+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1764|43 |172 |5.813 |175 | 5.714 | 1765+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1766|44 |176 |5.681 |187 | 5.333 | 1767+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1768|45 |180 |5.555 |187 | 5.333 | 1769+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1770|46 |184 |5.434 |187 | 5.333 | 1771+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1772|47 |188 |5.319 |200 | 5.000 | 1773+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1774|48 |192 |5.208 |200 | 5.000 | 1775+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1776|49 |196 |5.102 |200 | 5.000 | 1777+-------+--------+------------+--------+-------+ 1778 1779 178017. Serial NVRAM 1781================ 1782 1783(added by Richard Waltham: dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk) 1784 178517.1 Features 1786------------- 1787 1788Enabling serial NVRAM support enables detection of the serial NVRAM included 1789on Symbios and some Symbios compatible host adaptors, and Tekram boards. The 1790serial NVRAM is used by Symbios and Tekram to hold set up parameters for the 1791host adaptor and its attached drives. 1792 1793The Symbios NVRAM also holds data on the boot order of host adaptors in a 1794system with more than one host adaptor. This enables the order of scanning 1795the cards for drives to be changed from the default used during host adaptor 1796detection. 1797 1798This can be done to a limited extent at the moment using "reverse probe" but 1799this only changes the order of detection of different types of cards. The 1800NVRAM boot order settings can do this as well as change the order the same 1801types of cards are scanned in, something "reverse probe" cannot do. 1802 1803Tekram boards using Symbios chips, DC390W/F/U, which have NVRAM are detected 1804and this is used to distinguish between Symbios compatible and Tekram host 1805adaptors. This is used to disable the Symbios compatible "diff" setting 1806incorrectly set on Tekram boards if the CONFIG_SCSI_53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT 1807configuration parameter is set enabling both Symbios and Tekram boards to be 1808used together with the Symbios cards using all their features, including 1809"diff" support. ("led pin" support for Symbios compatible cards can remain 1810enabled when using Tekram cards. It does nothing useful for Tekram host 1811adaptors but does not cause problems either.) 1812 1813 181417.2 Symbios NVRAM layout 1815------------------------- 1816 1817typical data at NVRAM address 0x100 (53c810a NVRAM):: 1818 1819 00 00 1820 64 01 1821 8e 0b 1822 1823 00 30 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 04 10 04 00 00 1824 1825 04 00 0f 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 01 00 00 62 1826 04 00 03 00 00 10 00 58 00 00 01 00 00 63 1827 04 00 01 00 00 10 00 48 00 00 01 00 00 61 1828 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1829 1830 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1831 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1832 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1833 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1834 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1835 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1836 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1837 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1838 1839 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1840 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1841 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1842 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1843 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1844 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1845 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1846 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1847 1848 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1849 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1850 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1851 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1852 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1853 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1854 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1855 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1856 1857 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1858 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1859 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1860 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1861 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1862 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1863 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1864 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1865 1866 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1867 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1868 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1869 1870 fe fe 1871 00 00 1872 00 00 1873 1874NVRAM layout details 1875 1876============= ================ 1877NVRAM Address 1878============= ================ 18790x000-0x0ff not used 18800x100-0x26f initialised data 18810x270-0x7ff not used 1882============= ================ 1883 1884general layout:: 1885 1886 header - 6 bytes, 1887 data - 356 bytes (checksum is byte sum of this data) 1888 trailer - 6 bytes 1889 --- 1890 total 368 bytes 1891 1892data area layout:: 1893 1894 controller set up - 20 bytes 1895 boot configuration - 56 bytes (4x14 bytes) 1896 device set up - 128 bytes (16x8 bytes) 1897 unused (spare?) - 152 bytes (19x8 bytes) 1898 --- 1899 total 356 bytes 1900 1901header:: 1902 1903 00 00 - ?? start marker 1904 64 01 - byte count (lsb/msb excludes header/trailer) 1905 8e 0b - checksum (lsb/msb excludes header/trailer) 1906 1907controller set up:: 1908 1909 00 30 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 04 10 04 00 00 1910 | | | | 1911 | | | -- host ID 1912 | | | 1913 | | --Removable Media Support 1914 | | 0x00 = none 1915 | | 0x01 = Bootable Device 1916 | | 0x02 = All with Media 1917 | | 1918 | --flag bits 2 1919 | 0x00000001= scan order hi->low 1920 | (default 0x00 - scan low->hi) 1921 --flag bits 1 1922 0x00000001 scam enable 1923 0x00000010 parity enable 1924 0x00000100 verbose boot msgs 1925 1926remaining bytes unknown - they do not appear to change in my 1927current set up for any of the controllers. 1928 1929default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM 1930(Removable Media added Symbios BIOS version 4.09) 1931 1932boot configuration 1933 1934boot order set by order of the devices in this table:: 1935 1936 04 00 0f 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 01 00 00 62 -- 1st controller 1937 04 00 03 00 00 10 00 58 00 00 01 00 00 63 2nd controller 1938 04 00 01 00 00 10 00 48 00 00 01 00 00 61 3rd controller 1939 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4th controller 1940 | | | | | | | | 1941 | | | | | | ---- PCI io port adr 1942 | | | | | --0x01 init/scan at boot time 1943 | | | | --PCI device/function number (0xdddddfff) 1944 | | ----- ?? PCI vendor ID (lsb/msb) 1945 ----PCI device ID (lsb/msb) 1946 1947 ?? use of this data is a guess but seems reasonable 1948 1949remaining bytes unknown - they do not appear to change in my 1950current set up 1951 1952default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM 1953-------------------------------------------------------- 1954 1955device set up (up to 16 devices - includes controller):: 1956 1957 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 - id 0 1958 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1959 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1960 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1961 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1962 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1963 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1964 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1965 1966 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1967 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1968 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1969 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1970 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1971 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1972 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 1973 0f 00 08 08 64 00 0a 00 - id 15 1974 | | | | | | 1975 | | | | ----timeout (lsb/msb) 1976 | | | --synch period (0x?? 40 Mtrans/sec- fast 40) (probably 0x28) 1977 | | | (0x30 20 Mtrans/sec- fast 20) 1978 | | | (0x64 10 Mtrans/sec- fast ) 1979 | | | (0xc8 5 Mtrans/sec) 1980 | | | (0x00 asynchronous) 1981 | | -- ?? max sync offset (0x08 in NVRAM on 53c810a) 1982 | | (0x10 in NVRAM on 53c875) 1983 | --device bus width (0x08 narrow) 1984 | (0x10 16 bit wide) 1985 --flag bits 1986 0x00000001 - disconnect enabled 1987 0x00000010 - scan at boot time 1988 0x00000100 - scan luns 1989 0x00001000 - queue tags enabled 1990 1991remaining bytes unknown - they do not appear to change in my 1992current set up 1993 1994?? use of this data is a guess but seems reasonable 1995(but it could be max bus width) 1996 1997default set up for 53c810a NVRAM 1998default set up for 53c875 NVRAM 1999 2000 - bus width - 0x10 2001 - sync offset ? - 0x10 2002 - sync period - 0x30 2003 2004?? spare device space (32 bit bus ??) 2005 2006:: 2007 2008 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (19x8bytes) 2009 . 2010 . 2011 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2012 2013default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM 2014-------------------------------------------------------- 2015 2016trailer:: 2017 2018 fe fe - ? end marker ? 2019 00 00 2020 00 00 2021 2022default set up is identical for 53c810a and 53c875 NVRAM 2023----------------------------------------------------------- 2024 2025 2026 202717.3 Tekram NVRAM layout 2028------------------------ 2029 2030nvram 64x16 (1024 bit) 2031 2032Drive settings:: 2033 2034 Drive ID 0-15 (addr 0x0yyyy0 = device setup, yyyy = ID) 2035 (addr 0x0yyyy1 = 0x0000) 2036 2037 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 2038 | | | | | | | | | 2039 | | | | | | | | ----- parity check 0 - off 2040 | | | | | | | | 1 - on 2041 | | | | | | | | 2042 | | | | | | | ------- sync neg 0 - off 2043 | | | | | | | 1 - on 2044 | | | | | | | 2045 | | | | | | --------- disconnect 0 - off 2046 | | | | | | 1 - on 2047 | | | | | | 2048 | | | | | ----------- start cmd 0 - off 2049 | | | | | 1 - on 2050 | | | | | 2051 | | | | -------------- tagged cmds 0 - off 2052 | | | | 1 - on 2053 | | | | 2054 | | | ---------------- wide neg 0 - off 2055 | | | 1 - on 2056 | | | 2057 --------------------------- sync rate 0 - 10.0 Mtrans/sec 2058 1 - 8.0 2059 2 - 6.6 2060 3 - 5.7 2061 4 - 5.0 2062 5 - 4.0 2063 6 - 3.0 2064 7 - 2.0 2065 7 - 2.0 2066 8 - 20.0 2067 9 - 16.7 2068 a - 13.9 2069 b - 11.9 2070 2071Global settings 2072 2073Host flags 0 (addr 0x100000, 32):: 2074 2075 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 2076 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2077 | | | | | | | | ----------- host ID 0x00 - 0x0f 2078 | | | | | | | | 2079 | | | | | | | ----------------------- support for 0 - off 2080 | | | | | | | > 2 drives 1 - on 2081 | | | | | | | 2082 | | | | | | ------------------------- support drives 0 - off 2083 | | | | | | > 1Gbytes 1 - on 2084 | | | | | | 2085 | | | | | --------------------------- bus reset on 0 - off 2086 | | | | | power on 1 - on 2087 | | | | | 2088 | | | | ----------------------------- active neg 0 - off 2089 | | | | 1 - on 2090 | | | | 2091 | | | -------------------------------- imm seek 0 - off 2092 | | | 1 - on 2093 | | | 2094 | | ---------------------------------- scan luns 0 - off 2095 | | 1 - on 2096 | | 2097 -------------------------------------- removable 0 - disable 2098 as BIOS dev 1 - boot device 2099 2 - all 2100 2101Host flags 1 (addr 0x100001, 33):: 2102 2103 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 2104 | | | | | | 2105 | | | --------- boot delay 0 - 3 sec 2106 | | | 1 - 5 2107 | | | 2 - 10 2108 | | | 3 - 20 2109 | | | 4 - 30 2110 | | | 5 - 60 2111 | | | 6 - 120 2112 | | | 2113 --------------------------- max tag cmds 0 - 2 2114 1 - 4 2115 2 - 8 2116 3 - 16 2117 4 - 32 2118 2119Host flags 2 (addr 0x100010, 34):: 2120 2121 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 2122 | 2123 ----- F2/F6 enable 0 - off ??? 2124 1 - on ??? 2125 2126checksum (addr 0x111111) 2127 2128checksum = 0x1234 - (sum addr 0-63) 2129 2130---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2131 2132default nvram data:: 2133 2134 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 2135 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 2136 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 2137 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 0x0037 0x0000 2138 2139 0x0f07 0x0400 0x0001 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 2140 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 2141 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 2142 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0xfbbc 2143 2144 214518. Support for Big Endian 2146========================== 2147 2148The PCI local bus has been primarily designed for x86 architecture. 2149As a consequence, PCI devices generally expect DWORDS using little endian 2150byte ordering. 2151 215218.1 Big Endian CPU 2153------------------- 2154 2155In order to support NCR chips on a Big Endian architecture the driver has to 2156perform byte reordering each time it is needed. This feature has been 2157added to the driver by Cort <cort@cs.nmt.edu> and is available in driver 2158version 2.5 and later ones. For the moment Big Endian support has only 2159been tested on Linux/PPC (PowerPC). 2160 216118.2 NCR chip in Big Endian mode of operations 2162---------------------------------------------- 2163 2164It can be read in SYMBIOS documentation that some chips support a special 2165Big Endian mode, on paper: 53C815, 53C825A, 53C875, 53C875N, 53C895. 2166This mode of operations is not software-selectable, but needs pin named 2167BigLit to be pulled-up. Using this mode, most of byte reorderings should 2168be avoided when the driver is running on a Big Endian CPU. 2169Driver version 2.5 is also, in theory, ready for this feature. 2170