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+====================================================================
+= Adaptec Aic7xxx Fast -> Ultra160 Family Manager Set v6.2.28 =
+= README for =
+= The Linux Operating System =
+====================================================================
+
+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, unttagged 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
+ 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 instroduced in 6.2.29 that
+ could cuase 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 "modules.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 ommitted 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 ommitted 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.
+
+3. Contacting Adaptec
+
+ 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 for 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.
+ - To speak with a Fibre Channel/RAID/External Storage Technical
+ Support Specialist, call 1-321-207-2000,
+ Hours: Monday-Friday, 3:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., PST.
+ (Not open on holidays)
+ - For Technical Support in all other technologies including
+ SCSI, call 1-408-934-7274,
+ Hours: Monday-Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., PST.
+ (Not open on holidays)
+ - For after hours support, call 1-800-416-8066 ($99/call,
+ $149/call on holidays)
+ - To order Adaptec products including software and cables, call
+ 1-800-442-7274 or 1-408-957-7274. You can also visit our
+ online store at http://www.adaptecstore.com
+
+ Europe
+ - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec-europe.com.
+ - English and French: To speak with a Technical Support
+ Specialist, call one of the following numbers:
+ - English: +32-2-352-3470
+ - French: +32-2-352-3460
+ Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10:00 to 12:30, 13:30 to 17:30 CET
+ Friday, 10:00 to 12:30, 13:30 to 16:30 CET
+ - German: To speak with a Technical Support Specialist,
+ call +49-89-456-40660
+ Hours: Monday-Thursday, 09:30 to 12:30, 13:30 to 16:30 CET
+ Friday, 09:30 to 12:30, 13:30 to 15:00 CET
+ - To order Adaptec products, including accessories and cables:
+ - UK: +0800-96-65-26 or fax +0800-731-02-95
+ - Other European countries: +32-11-300-379
+
+ Australia and New Zealand
+ - Visit our Web site at http://www.adaptec.com.au.
+ - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call
+ +612-9416-0698
+ Hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., EAT
+ (Not open on holidays)
+
+ Japan
+ - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call
+ +81-3-5308-6120
+ Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. to
+ 6:00 p.m. TSC
+
+ Hong Kong and China
+ - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call
+ +852-2869-7200
+ Hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 to 17:00.
+ - Fax Technical Support at +852-2869-7100.
+
+ Singapore
+ - To speak with a Technical Support Specialist, call
+ +65-245-7470
+ Hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 to 17:00.
+ - Fax Technical Support at +852-2869-7100
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2003 Adaptec Inc. 691 S. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas CA 95035 USA.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * You are permitted to redistribute, use and modify this README file in whole
+ * or in part in conjunction with redistribution of software governed by the
+ * General Public License, provided that the following conditions are met:
+ * 1. Redistributions of README file must retain the above copyright
+ * notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer,
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+ *
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