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James Bottomley79778a22005-08-04 17:33:22 -05002= Adaptec Aic7xxx Fast -> Ultra160 Family Manager Set v7.0 =
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003= README for =
4= The Linux Operating System =
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6
7The following information is available in this file:
8
9 1. Supported Hardware
10 2. Version History
11 3. Command Line Options
12 4. Contacting Adaptec
13
141. Supported Hardware
15
16 The following Adaptec SCSI Chips and Host Adapters are supported by
17 the aic7xxx driver.
18
19 Chip MIPS Host Bus MaxSync MaxWidth SCBs Notes
20 ---------------------------------------------------------------
21 aic7770 10 EISA/VL 10MHz 16Bit 4 1
22 aic7850 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3
23 aic7855 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3
24 aic7856 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3
25 aic7859 10 PCI/32 20MHz 8Bit 3
26 aic7860 10 PCI/32 20MHz 8Bit 3
27 aic7870 10 PCI/32 10MHz 16Bit 16
28 aic7880 10 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16
29 aic7890 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 8
30 aic7891 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 8
31 aic7892 20 PCI/64-66 80MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 8
32 aic7895 15 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5
33 aic7895C 15 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 8
34 aic7896 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
35 aic7897 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
36 aic7899 20 PCI/64-66 80MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
37
38 1. Multiplexed Twin Channel Device - One controller servicing two
39 busses.
40 2. Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip.
41 3. Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list
42 and SCB prefetch.
43 4. 64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, unttagged request table
44 for all possible target/lun combinations.
45 5. Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain
46 sequencer operations.
47 6. `Bayonet' style Scatter Gather Engine - Improves S/G prefetch
48 performance.
49 7. Queuing Registers - Allows queuing of new transactions without
50 pausing the sequencer.
51 8. Multiple Target IDs - Allows the controller to respond to selection
52 as a target on multiple SCSI IDs.
53
54 Controller Chip Host-Bus Int-Connectors Ext-Connectors Notes
55 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
56 AHA-274X[A] aic7770 EISA SE-50M SE-HD50F
57 AHA-274X[A]W aic7770 EISA SE-HD68F SE-HD68F
58 SE-50M
59 AHA-274X[A]T aic7770 EISA 2 X SE-50M SE-HD50F
60 AHA-2842 aic7770 VL SE-50M SE-HD50F
61 AHA-2940AU aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F
62 AVA-2902I aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
63 AVA-2902E aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
64 AVA-2906 aic7856 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-DB25F
65 APC-7850 aic7850 PCI/32 SE-50M 1
66 AVA-2940 aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
67 AHA-2920B aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
68 AHA-2930B aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
69 AHA-2920C aic7856 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F
70 AHA-2930C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
71 AHA-2930C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
72 AHA-2910C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
73 AHA-2915C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M
74 AHA-2940AU/CN aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F
75 AHA-2944W aic7870 PCI/32 HVD-HD68F HVD-HD68F
76 HVD-50M
77 AHA-3940W aic7870 PCI/32 2 X SE-HD68F SE-HD68F 2
78 AHA-2940UW aic7880 PCI/32 SE-HD68F
79 SE-50M SE-HD68F
80 AHA-2940U aic7880 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F
81 AHA-2940D aic7880 PCI/32
82 aHA-2940 A/T aic7880 PCI/32
83 AHA-2940D A/T aic7880 PCI/32
84 AHA-3940UW aic7880 PCI/32 2 X SE-HD68F SE-HD68F 3
85 AHA-3940UWD aic7880 PCI/32 2 X SE-HD68F 2 X SE-VHD68F 3
86 AHA-3940U aic7880 PCI/32 2 X SE-50M SE-HD50F 3
87 AHA-2944UW aic7880 PCI/32 HVD-HD68F HVD-HD68F
88 HVD-50M
89 AHA-3944UWD aic7880 PCI/32 2 X HVD-HD68F 2 X HVD-VHD68F 3
90 AHA-4944UW aic7880 PCI/32
91 AHA-2930UW aic7880 PCI/32
92 AHA-2940UW Pro aic7880 PCI/32 SE-HD68F SE-HD68F 4
93 SE-50M
94 AHA-2940UW/CN aic7880 PCI/32
95 AHA-2940UDual aic7895 PCI/32
96 AHA-2940UWDual aic7895 PCI/32
97 AHA-3940UWD aic7895 PCI/32
98 AHA-3940AUW aic7895 PCI/32
99 AHA-3940AUWD aic7895 PCI/32
100 AHA-3940AU aic7895 PCI/32
101 AHA-3944AUWD aic7895 PCI/32 2 X HVD-HD68F 2 X HVD-VHD68F
102 AHA-2940U2B aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F
103 AHA-2940U2 OEM aic7891 PCI/64
104 AHA-2940U2W aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F
105 SE-HD68F
106 SE-50M
107 AHA-2950U2B aic7891 PCI/64 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F
108 AHA-2930U2 aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F SE-HD50F
109 SE-50M
110 AHA-3950U2B aic7897 PCI/64
111 AHA-3950U2D aic7897 PCI/64
112 AHA-29160 aic7892 PCI/64-66
113 AHA-29160 CPQ aic7892 PCI/64-66
114 AHA-29160N aic7892 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F SE-HD50F
115 SE-50M
116 AHA-29160LP aic7892 PCI/64-66
117 AHA-19160 aic7892 PCI/64-66
118 AHA-29150LP aic7892 PCI/64-66
119 AHA-29130LP aic7892 PCI/64-66
120 AHA-3960D aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F 2 X LVD-VHD68F
121 LVD-50M
122 AHA-3960D CPQ aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F 2 X LVD-VHD68F
123 LVD-50M
124 AHA-39160 aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F 2 X LVD-VHD68F
125 LVD-50M
126
127 1. No BIOS support
128 2. DEC21050 PCI-PCI bridge with multiple controller chips on secondary bus
129 3. DEC2115X PCI-PCI bridge with multiple controller chips on secondary bus
130 4. All three SCSI connectors may be used simultaneously without
131 SCSI "stub" effects.
132
1332. Version History
James Bottomley79778a22005-08-04 17:33:22 -0500134 7.0 (4th August, 2005)
135 - Updated driver to use SCSI transport class infrastructure
136 - Upported sequencer and core fixes from last adaptec released
137 version of the driver.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700138 6.2.36 (June 3rd, 2003)
139 - Correct code that disables PCI parity error checking.
140 - Correct and simplify handling of the ignore wide residue
141 message. The previous code would fail to report a residual
142 if the transaction data length was even and we received
143 an IWR message.
144 - Add support for the 2.5.X EISA framework.
145 - Update for change in 2.5.X SCSI proc FS interface.
146 - Correct Domain Validation command-line option parsing.
147 - When negotiation async via an 8bit WDTR message, send
148 an SDTR with an offset of 0 to be sure the target
149 knows we are async. This works around a firmware defect
150 in the Quantum Atlas 10K.
151 - Clear PCI error state during driver attach so that we
152 don't disable memory mapped I/O due to a stray write
153 by some other driver probe that occurred before we
154 claimed the controller.
155
156 6.2.35 (May 14th, 2003)
157 - Fix a few GCC 3.3 compiler warnings.
158 - Correct operation on EISA Twin Channel controller.
159 - Add support for 2.5.X's scsi_report_device_reset().
160
161 6.2.34 (May 5th, 2003)
162 - Fix locking regression instroduced in 6.2.29 that
Matt LaPlante6c28f2c2006-10-03 22:46:31 +0200163 could cause a lock order reversal between the io_request_lock
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700164 and our per-softc lock. This was only possible on RH9,
165 SuSE, and kernel.org 2.4.X kernels.
166
167 6.2.33 (April 30th, 2003)
168 - Dynamically disable PCI parity error reporting after
169 10 errors are reported to the user. These errors are
170 the result of some other device issuing PCI transactions
171 with bad parity. Once the user has been informed of the
172 problem, continuing to report the errors just degrades
173 our performance.
174
175 6.2.32 (March 28th, 2003)
176 - Dynamically sized S/G lists to avoid SCSI malloc
177 pool fragmentation and SCSI mid-layer deadlock.
178
179 6.2.28 (January 20th, 2003)
180 - Domain Validation Fixes
181 - Add ability to disable PCI parity error checking.
182 - Enhanced Memory Mapped I/O probe
183
184 6.2.20 (November 7th, 2002)
185 - Added Domain Validation.
186
1873. Command Line Options
188
189 WARNING: ALTERING OR ADDING THESE DRIVER PARAMETERS
190 INCORRECTLY CAN RENDER YOUR SYSTEM INOPERABLE.
191 USE THEM WITH CAUTION.
192
193 Edit the file "modprobe.conf" in the directory /etc and add/edit a
194 line containing 'options aic7xxx aic7xxx=[command[,command...]]' where
195 'command' is one or more of the following:
196 -----------------------------------------------------------------
197 Option: verbose
198 Definition: enable additional informative messages during
199 driver operation.
200 Possible Values: This option is a flag
201 Default Value: disabled
202 -----------------------------------------------------------------
203 Option: debug:[value]
204 Definition: Enables various levels of debugging information
205 Possible Values: 0x0000 = no debugging, 0xffff = full debugging
206 Default Value: 0x0000
207 -----------------------------------------------------------------
208 Option: no_probe
209 Option: probe_eisa_vl
210 Definition: Do not probe for EISA/VLB controllers.
211 This is a toggle. If the driver is compiled
212 to not probe EISA/VLB controllers by default,
213 specifying "no_probe" will enable this probing.
214 If the driver is compiled to probe EISA/VLB
215 controllers by default, specifying "no_probe"
216 will disable this probing.
217 Possible Values: This option is a toggle
218 Default Value: EISA/VLB probing is disabled by default.
219 -----------------------------------------------------------------
220 Option: pci_parity
221 Definition: Toggles the detection of PCI parity errors.
222 On many motherboards with VIA chipsets,
223 PCI parity is not generated correctly on the
224 PCI bus. It is impossible for the hardware to
225 differentiate between these "spurious" parity
226 errors and real parity errors. The symptom of
227 this problem is a stream of the message:
228 "scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase"
229 output by the driver.
230 Possible Values: This option is a toggle
231 Default Value: PCI Parity Error reporting is disabled
232 -----------------------------------------------------------------
233 Option: no_reset
234 Definition: Do not reset the bus during the initial probe
235 phase
236 Possible Values: This option is a flag
237 Default Value: disabled
238 -----------------------------------------------------------------
239 Option: extended
240 Definition: Force extended translation on the controller
241 Possible Values: This option is a flag
242 Default Value: disabled
243 -----------------------------------------------------------------
244 Option: periodic_otag
245 Definition: Send an ordered tag periodically to prevent
246 tag starvation. Needed for some older devices
247 Possible Values: This option is a flag
248 Default Value: disabled
249 -----------------------------------------------------------------
250 Option: reverse_scan
251 Definition: Probe the scsi bus in reverse order, starting
252 with target 15
253 Possible Values: This option is a flag
254 Default Value: disabled
255 -----------------------------------------------------------------
256 Option: global_tag_depth:[value]
257 Definition: Global tag depth for all targets on all busses.
258 This option sets the default tag depth which
259 may be selectively overridden vi the tag_info
260 option.
261 Possible Values: 1 - 253
262 Default Value: 32
263 -----------------------------------------------------------------
264 Option: tag_info:{{value[,value...]}[,{value[,value...]}...]}
265 Definition: Set the per-target tagged queue depth on a
266 per controller basis. Both controllers and targets
267 may be ommitted indicating that they should retain
268 the default tag depth.
269 Examples: tag_info:{{16,32,32,64,8,8,,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32}
270 On Controller 0
271 specifies a tag depth of 16 for target 0
272 specifies a tag depth of 64 for target 3
273 specifies a tag depth of 8 for targets 4 and 5
274 leaves target 6 at the default
275 specifies a tag depth of 32 for targets 1,2,7-15
276 All other targets retain the default depth.
277
278 tag_info:{{},{32,,32}}
279 On Controller 1
280 specifies a tag depth of 32 for targets 0 and 2
281 All other targets retain the default depth.
282
283 Possible Values: 1 - 253
284 Default Value: 32
285 -----------------------------------------------------------------
286 Option: seltime:[value]
287 Definition: Specifies the selection timeout value
288 Possible Values: 0 = 256ms, 1 = 128ms, 2 = 64ms, 3 = 32ms
289 Default Value: 0
290 -----------------------------------------------------------------
291 Option: dv: {value[,value...]}
292 Definition: Set Domain Validation Policy on a per-controller basis.
293 Controllers may be ommitted indicating that
294 they should retain the default read streaming setting.
295 Example: dv:{-1,0,,1,1,0}
296 On Controller 0 leave DV at its default setting.
297 On Controller 1 disable DV.
298 Skip configuration on Controller 2.
299 On Controllers 3 and 4 enable DV.
300 On Controller 5 disable DV.
301
302 Possible Values: < 0 Use setting from serial EEPROM.
303 0 Disable DV
304 > 0 Enable DV
305
306 Default Value: SCSI-Select setting on controllers with a SCSI Select
307 option for DV. Otherwise, on for controllers supporting
308 U160 speeds and off for all other controller types.
309 -----------------------------------------------------------------
310
311 Example:
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100312 'options aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose,no_probe,tag_info:{{},{,,10}},seltime:1'
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700313 enables verbose logging, Disable EISA/VLB probing,
314 and set tag depth on Controller 1/Target 2 to 10 tags.
315
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +01003164. Adaptec Customer Support
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700317
318 A Technical Support Identification (TSID) Number is required for
319 Adaptec technical support.
320 - The 12-digit TSID can be found on the white barcode-type label
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100321 included inside the box with your product. The TSID helps us
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700322 provide more efficient service by accurately identifying your
323 product and support status.
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100324
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700325 Support Options
326 - Search the Adaptec Support Knowledgebase (ASK) at
327 http://ask.adaptec.com for articles, troubleshooting tips, and
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100328 frequently asked questions about your product.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700329 - For support via Email, submit your question to Adaptec's
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100330 Technical Support Specialists at http://ask.adaptec.com/.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700331
332 North America
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100333 - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec.com/.
334 - For information about Adaptec's support options, call
335 408-957-2550, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
336 - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist,
337 * For hardware products, call 408-934-7274,
338 Monday to Friday, 3:00 am to 5:00 pm, PDT.
339 * For RAID and Fibre Channel products, call 321-207-2000,
340 Monday to Friday, 3:00 am to 5:00 pm, PDT.
341 To expedite your service, have your computer with you.
342 - To order Adaptec products, including accessories and cables,
343 call 408-957-7274. To order cables online go to
344 http://www.adaptec.com/buy-cables/.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700345
346 Europe
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100347 - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec-europe.com/.
348 - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call, or email,
349 * German: +49 89 4366 5522, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 CET,
350 http://ask-de.adaptec.com/.
351 * French: +49 89 4366 5533, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 CET,
352 http://ask-fr.adaptec.com/.
353 * English: +49 89 4366 5544, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 GMT,
354 http://ask.adaptec.com/.
355 - You can order Adaptec cables online at
356 http://www.adaptec.com/buy-cables/.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700357
358 Japan
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100359 - Visit our web site at http://www.adaptec.co.jp/.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360 - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call
Hannes Reinecked60256b2006-01-24 10:45:35 +0100361 +81 3 5308 6120, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.,
362 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700363
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