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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
tree | 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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1 | README file for the Linux DTC3180/3280 scsi driver. | ||
2 | by Ray Van Tassle (rayvt@comm.mot.com) March 1996 | ||
3 | Based on the generic & core NCR5380 code by Drew Eckhard | ||
4 | |||
5 | SCSI device driver for the DTC 3180/3280. | ||
6 | Data Technology Corp---a division of Qume. | ||
7 | |||
8 | The 3280 has a standard floppy interface. | ||
9 | |||
10 | The 3180 does not. Otherwise, they are identical. | ||
11 | |||
12 | The DTC3x80 does not support DMA but it does have Pseudo-DMA which is | ||
13 | supported by the driver. | ||
14 | |||
15 | It's DTC406 scsi chip is supposedly compatible with the NCR 53C400. | ||
16 | It is memory mapped, uses an IRQ, but no dma or io-port. There is | ||
17 | internal DMA, between SCSI bus and an on-chip 128-byte buffer. Double | ||
18 | buffering is done automagically by the chip. Data is transferred | ||
19 | between the on-chip buffer and CPU/RAM via memory moves. | ||
20 | |||
21 | The driver detects the possible memory addresses (jumper selectable): | ||
22 | CC00, DC00, C800, and D800 | ||
23 | The possible IRQ's (jumper selectable) are: | ||
24 | IRQ 10, 11, 12, 15 | ||
25 | Parity is supported by the chip, but not by this driver. | ||
26 | Information can be obtained from /proc/scsi/dtc3c80/N. | ||
27 | |||
28 | Note on interrupts: | ||
29 | |||
30 | The documentation says that it can be set to interrupt whenever the | ||
31 | on-chip buffer needs CPU attention. I couldn't get this to work. So | ||
32 | the driver polls for data-ready in the pseudo-DMA transfer routine. | ||
33 | The interrupt support routines in the NCR3280.c core modules handle | ||
34 | scsi disconnect/reconnect, and this (mostly) works. However..... I | ||
35 | have tested it with 4 totally different hard drives (both SCSI-1 and | ||
36 | SCSI-2), and one CDROM drive. Interrupts works great for all but one | ||
37 | specific hard drive. For this one, the driver will eventually hang in | ||
38 | the transfer state. I have tested with: "dd bs=4k count=2k | ||
39 | of=/dev/null if=/dev/sdb". It reads ok for a while, then hangs. | ||
40 | After beating my head against this for a couple of weeks, getting | ||
41 | nowhere, I give up. So.....This driver does NOT use interrupts, even | ||
42 | if you have the card jumpered to an IRQ. Probably nobody will ever | ||
43 | care. | ||