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| = Adaptec Aic7xxx Fast -> Ultra160 Family Manager Set v7.0 = |
| = README for = |
| = The Linux Operating System = |
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| |
| The following information is available in this file: |
| |
| 1. Supported Hardware |
| 2. Version History |
| 3. Command Line Options |
| 4. Contacting Adaptec |
| |
| 1. Supported Hardware |
| |
| The following Adaptec SCSI Chips and Host Adapters are supported by |
| the aic7xxx driver. |
| |
| Chip MIPS Host Bus MaxSync MaxWidth SCBs Notes |
| --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| aic7770 10 EISA/VL 10MHz 16Bit 4 1 |
| aic7850 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3 |
| aic7855 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3 |
| aic7856 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3 |
| aic7859 10 PCI/32 20MHz 8Bit 3 |
| aic7860 10 PCI/32 20MHz 8Bit 3 |
| aic7870 10 PCI/32 10MHz 16Bit 16 |
| aic7880 10 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 |
| aic7890 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| aic7891 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| aic7892 20 PCI/64-66 80MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| aic7895 15 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 |
| aic7895C 15 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 8 |
| aic7896 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| aic7897 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| aic7899 20 PCI/64-66 80MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |
| |
| 1. Multiplexed Twin Channel Device - One controller servicing two |
| busses. |
| 2. Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip. |
| 3. Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list |
| and SCB prefetch. |
| 4. 64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, untagged request table |
| for all possible target/lun combinations. |
| 5. Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain |
| sequencer operations. |
| 6. `Bayonet' style Scatter Gather Engine - Improves S/G prefetch |
| performance. |
| 7. Queuing Registers - Allows queuing of new transactions without |
| pausing the sequencer. |
| 8. Multiple Target IDs - Allows the controller to respond to selection |
| as a target on multiple SCSI IDs. |
| |
| Controller Chip Host-Bus Int-Connectors Ext-Connectors Notes |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AHA-274X[A] aic7770 EISA SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AHA-274X[A]W aic7770 EISA SE-HD68F SE-HD68F |
| SE-50M |
| AHA-274X[A]T aic7770 EISA 2 X SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AHA-2842 aic7770 VL SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AHA-2940AU aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AVA-2902I aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AVA-2902E aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AVA-2906 aic7856 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-DB25F |
| APC-7850 aic7850 PCI/32 SE-50M 1 |
| AVA-2940 aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2920B aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2930B aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2920C aic7856 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AHA-2930C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2930C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2910C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2915C aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M |
| AHA-2940AU/CN aic7860 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AHA-2944W aic7870 PCI/32 HVD-HD68F HVD-HD68F |
| HVD-50M |
| AHA-3940W aic7870 PCI/32 2 X SE-HD68F SE-HD68F 2 |
| AHA-2940UW aic7880 PCI/32 SE-HD68F |
| SE-50M SE-HD68F |
| AHA-2940U aic7880 PCI/32 SE-50M SE-HD50F |
| AHA-2940D aic7880 PCI/32 |
| aHA-2940 A/T aic7880 PCI/32 |
| AHA-2940D A/T aic7880 PCI/32 |
| AHA-3940UW aic7880 PCI/32 2 X SE-HD68F SE-HD68F 3 |
| AHA-3940UWD aic7880 PCI/32 2 X SE-HD68F 2 X SE-VHD68F 3 |
| AHA-3940U aic7880 PCI/32 2 X SE-50M SE-HD50F 3 |
| AHA-2944UW aic7880 PCI/32 HVD-HD68F HVD-HD68F |
| HVD-50M |
| AHA-3944UWD aic7880 PCI/32 2 X HVD-HD68F 2 X HVD-VHD68F 3 |
| AHA-4944UW aic7880 PCI/32 |
| AHA-2930UW aic7880 PCI/32 |
| AHA-2940UW Pro aic7880 PCI/32 SE-HD68F SE-HD68F 4 |
| SE-50M |
| AHA-2940UW/CN aic7880 PCI/32 |
| AHA-2940UDual aic7895 PCI/32 |
| AHA-2940UWDual aic7895 PCI/32 |
| AHA-3940UWD aic7895 PCI/32 |
| AHA-3940AUW aic7895 PCI/32 |
| AHA-3940AUWD aic7895 PCI/32 |
| AHA-3940AU aic7895 PCI/32 |
| AHA-3944AUWD aic7895 PCI/32 2 X HVD-HD68F 2 X HVD-VHD68F |
| AHA-2940U2B aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F |
| AHA-2940U2 OEM aic7891 PCI/64 |
| AHA-2940U2W aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F |
| SE-HD68F |
| SE-50M |
| AHA-2950U2B aic7891 PCI/64 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F |
| AHA-2930U2 aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F SE-HD50F |
| SE-50M |
| AHA-3950U2B aic7897 PCI/64 |
| AHA-3950U2D aic7897 PCI/64 |
| AHA-29160 aic7892 PCI/64-66 |
| AHA-29160 CPQ aic7892 PCI/64-66 |
| AHA-29160N aic7892 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F SE-HD50F |
| SE-50M |
| AHA-29160LP aic7892 PCI/64-66 |
| AHA-19160 aic7892 PCI/64-66 |
| AHA-29150LP aic7892 PCI/64-66 |
| AHA-29130LP aic7892 PCI/64-66 |
| AHA-3960D aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F 2 X LVD-VHD68F |
| LVD-50M |
| AHA-3960D CPQ aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F 2 X LVD-VHD68F |
| LVD-50M |
| AHA-39160 aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F 2 X LVD-VHD68F |
| LVD-50M |
| |
| 1. No BIOS support |
| 2. DEC21050 PCI-PCI bridge with multiple controller chips on secondary bus |
| 3. DEC2115X PCI-PCI bridge with multiple controller chips on secondary bus |
| 4. All three SCSI connectors may be used simultaneously without |
| SCSI "stub" effects. |
| |
| 2. Version History |
| 7.0 (4th August, 2005) |
| - Updated driver to use SCSI transport class infrastructure |
| - Upported sequencer and core fixes from last adaptec released |
| version of the driver. |
| 6.2.36 (June 3rd, 2003) |
| - Correct code that disables PCI parity error checking. |
| - Correct and simplify handling of the ignore wide residue |
| message. The previous code would fail to report a residual |
| if the transaction data length was even and we received |
| an IWR message. |
| - Add support for the 2.5.X EISA framework. |
| - Update for change in 2.5.X SCSI proc FS interface. |
| - Correct Domain Validation command-line option parsing. |
| - When negotiation async via an 8bit WDTR message, send |
| an SDTR with an offset of 0 to be sure the target |
| knows we are async. This works around a firmware defect |
| in the Quantum Atlas 10K. |
| - Clear PCI error state during driver attach so that we |
| don't disable memory mapped I/O due to a stray write |
| by some other driver probe that occurred before we |
| claimed the controller. |
| |
| 6.2.35 (May 14th, 2003) |
| - Fix a few GCC 3.3 compiler warnings. |
| - Correct operation on EISA Twin Channel controller. |
| - Add support for 2.5.X's scsi_report_device_reset(). |
| |
| 6.2.34 (May 5th, 2003) |
| - Fix locking regression introduced in 6.2.29 that |
| could cause a lock order reversal between the io_request_lock |
| and our per-softc lock. This was only possible on RH9, |
| SuSE, and kernel.org 2.4.X kernels. |
| |
| 6.2.33 (April 30th, 2003) |
| - Dynamically disable PCI parity error reporting after |
| 10 errors are reported to the user. These errors are |
| the result of some other device issuing PCI transactions |
| with bad parity. Once the user has been informed of the |
| problem, continuing to report the errors just degrades |
| our performance. |
| |
| 6.2.32 (March 28th, 2003) |
| - Dynamically sized S/G lists to avoid SCSI malloc |
| pool fragmentation and SCSI mid-layer deadlock. |
| |
| 6.2.28 (January 20th, 2003) |
| - Domain Validation Fixes |
| - Add ability to disable PCI parity error checking. |
| - Enhanced Memory Mapped I/O probe |
| |
| 6.2.20 (November 7th, 2002) |
| - Added Domain Validation. |
| |
| 3. Command Line Options |
| |
| WARNING: ALTERING OR ADDING THESE DRIVER PARAMETERS |
| INCORRECTLY CAN RENDER YOUR SYSTEM INOPERABLE. |
| USE THEM WITH CAUTION. |
| |
| Edit the file "modprobe.conf" in the directory /etc and add/edit a |
| line containing 'options aic7xxx aic7xxx=[command[,command...]]' where |
| 'command' is one or more of the following: |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: verbose |
| Definition: enable additional informative messages during |
| driver operation. |
| Possible Values: This option is a flag |
| Default Value: disabled |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: debug:[value] |
| Definition: Enables various levels of debugging information |
| Possible Values: 0x0000 = no debugging, 0xffff = full debugging |
| Default Value: 0x0000 |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: no_probe |
| Option: probe_eisa_vl |
| Definition: Do not probe for EISA/VLB controllers. |
| This is a toggle. If the driver is compiled |
| to not probe EISA/VLB controllers by default, |
| specifying "no_probe" will enable this probing. |
| If the driver is compiled to probe EISA/VLB |
| controllers by default, specifying "no_probe" |
| will disable this probing. |
| Possible Values: This option is a toggle |
| Default Value: EISA/VLB probing is disabled by default. |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: pci_parity |
| Definition: Toggles the detection of PCI parity errors. |
| On many motherboards with VIA chipsets, |
| PCI parity is not generated correctly on the |
| PCI bus. It is impossible for the hardware to |
| differentiate between these "spurious" parity |
| errors and real parity errors. The symptom of |
| this problem is a stream of the message: |
| "scsi0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase" |
| output by the driver. |
| Possible Values: This option is a toggle |
| Default Value: PCI Parity Error reporting is disabled |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: no_reset |
| Definition: Do not reset the bus during the initial probe |
| phase |
| Possible Values: This option is a flag |
| Default Value: disabled |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: extended |
| Definition: Force extended translation on the controller |
| Possible Values: This option is a flag |
| Default Value: disabled |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: periodic_otag |
| Definition: Send an ordered tag periodically to prevent |
| tag starvation. Needed for some older devices |
| Possible Values: This option is a flag |
| Default Value: disabled |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: reverse_scan |
| Definition: Probe the scsi bus in reverse order, starting |
| with target 15 |
| Possible Values: This option is a flag |
| Default Value: disabled |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: global_tag_depth:[value] |
| Definition: Global tag depth for all targets on all busses. |
| This option sets the default tag depth which |
| may be selectively overridden vi the tag_info |
| option. |
| Possible Values: 1 - 253 |
| Default Value: 32 |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: tag_info:{{value[,value...]}[,{value[,value...]}...]} |
| Definition: Set the per-target tagged queue depth on a |
| per controller basis. Both controllers and targets |
| may be omitted indicating that they should retain |
| the default tag depth. |
| Examples: tag_info:{{16,32,32,64,8,8,,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32} |
| On Controller 0 |
| specifies a tag depth of 16 for target 0 |
| specifies a tag depth of 64 for target 3 |
| specifies a tag depth of 8 for targets 4 and 5 |
| leaves target 6 at the default |
| specifies a tag depth of 32 for targets 1,2,7-15 |
| All other targets retain the default depth. |
| |
| tag_info:{{},{32,,32}} |
| On Controller 1 |
| specifies a tag depth of 32 for targets 0 and 2 |
| All other targets retain the default depth. |
| |
| Possible Values: 1 - 253 |
| Default Value: 32 |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: seltime:[value] |
| Definition: Specifies the selection timeout value |
| Possible Values: 0 = 256ms, 1 = 128ms, 2 = 64ms, 3 = 32ms |
| Default Value: 0 |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Option: dv: {value[,value...]} |
| Definition: Set Domain Validation Policy on a per-controller basis. |
| Controllers may be omitted indicating that |
| they should retain the default read streaming setting. |
| Example: dv:{-1,0,,1,1,0} |
| On Controller 0 leave DV at its default setting. |
| On Controller 1 disable DV. |
| Skip configuration on Controller 2. |
| On Controllers 3 and 4 enable DV. |
| On Controller 5 disable DV. |
| |
| Possible Values: < 0 Use setting from serial EEPROM. |
| 0 Disable DV |
| > 0 Enable DV |
| |
| Default Value: SCSI-Select setting on controllers with a SCSI Select |
| option for DV. Otherwise, on for controllers supporting |
| U160 speeds and off for all other controller types. |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Example: |
| 'options aic7xxx aic7xxx=verbose,no_probe,tag_info:{{},{,,10}},seltime:1' |
| enables verbose logging, Disable EISA/VLB probing, |
| and set tag depth on Controller 1/Target 2 to 10 tags. |
| |
| 4. Adaptec Customer Support |
| |
| A Technical Support Identification (TSID) Number is required for |
| Adaptec technical support. |
| - The 12-digit TSID can be found on the white barcode-type label |
| included inside the box with your product. The TSID helps us |
| provide more efficient service by accurately identifying your |
| product and support status. |
| |
| Support Options |
| - Search the Adaptec Support Knowledgebase (ASK) at |
| http://ask.adaptec.com for articles, troubleshooting tips, and |
| frequently asked questions about your product. |
| - For support via Email, submit your question to Adaptec's |
| Technical Support Specialists at http://ask.adaptec.com/. |
| |
| North America |
| - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec.com/. |
| - For information about Adaptec's support options, call |
| 408-957-2550, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
| - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, |
| * For hardware products, call 408-934-7274, |
| Monday to Friday, 3:00 am to 5:00 pm, PDT. |
| * For RAID and Fibre Channel products, call 321-207-2000, |
| Monday to Friday, 3:00 am to 5:00 pm, PDT. |
| To expedite your service, have your computer with you. |
| - To order Adaptec products, including accessories and cables, |
| call 408-957-7274. To order cables online go to |
| http://www.adaptec.com/buy-cables/. |
| |
| Europe |
| - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/_common/world_index. |
| - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call, or email, |
| * German: +49 89 4366 5522, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 CET, |
| http://ask-de.adaptec.com/. |
| * French: +49 89 4366 5533, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 CET, |
| http://ask-fr.adaptec.com/. |
| * English: +49 89 4366 5544, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 GMT, |
| http://ask.adaptec.com/. |
| - You can order Adaptec cables online at |
| http://www.adaptec.com/buy-cables/. |
| |
| Japan |
| - Visit our web site at http://www.adaptec.co.jp/. |
| - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call |
| +81 3 5308 6120, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., |
| 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
| |
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