Root/Documentation/scsi/advansys.txt

1AdvanSys (Advanced System Products, Inc.) manufactures the following
2RISC-based, Bus-Mastering, Fast (10 Mhz) and Ultra (20 Mhz) Narrow
3(8-bit transfer) SCSI Host Adapters for the ISA, EISA, VL, and PCI
4buses and RISC-based, Bus-Mastering, Ultra (20 Mhz) Wide (16-bit
5transfer) SCSI Host Adapters for the PCI bus.
6
7The CDB counts below indicate the number of SCSI CDB (Command
8Descriptor Block) requests that can be stored in the RISC chip
9cache and board LRAM. A CDB is a single SCSI command. The driver
10detect routine will display the number of CDBs available for each
11adapter detected. The number of CDBs used by the driver can be
12lowered in the BIOS by changing the 'Host Queue Size' adapter setting.
13
14Laptop Products:
15   ABP-480 - Bus-Master CardBus (16 CDB)
16
17Connectivity Products:
18   ABP510/5150 - Bus-Master ISA (240 CDB)
19   ABP5140 - Bus-Master ISA PnP (16 CDB)
20   ABP5142 - Bus-Master ISA PnP with floppy (16 CDB)
21   ABP902/3902 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
22   ABP3905 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
23   ABP915 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
24   ABP920 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
25   ABP3922 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
26   ABP3925 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
27   ABP930 - Bus-Master PCI (16 CDB)
28   ABP930U - Bus-Master PCI Ultra (16 CDB)
29   ABP930UA - Bus-Master PCI Ultra (16 CDB)
30   ABP960 - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC (16 CDB)
31   ABP960U - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (16 CDB)
32
33Single Channel Products:
34   ABP542 - Bus-Master ISA with floppy (240 CDB)
35   ABP742 - Bus-Master EISA (240 CDB)
36   ABP842 - Bus-Master VL (240 CDB)
37   ABP940 - Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB)
38   ABP940U - Bus-Master PCI Ultra (240 CDB)
39   ABP940UA/3940UA - Bus-Master PCI Ultra (240 CDB)
40   ABP970 - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC (240 CDB)
41   ABP970U - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (240 CDB)
42   ABP3960UA - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra (240 CDB)
43   ABP940UW/3940UW - Bus-Master PCI Ultra-Wide (253 CDB)
44   ABP970UW - Bus-Master PCI MAC/PC Ultra-Wide (253 CDB)
45   ABP3940U2W - Bus-Master PCI LVD/Ultra2-Wide (253 CDB)
46
47Multi-Channel Products:
48   ABP752 - Dual Channel Bus-Master EISA (240 CDB Per Channel)
49   ABP852 - Dual Channel Bus-Master VL (240 CDB Per Channel)
50   ABP950 - Dual Channel Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB Per Channel)
51   ABP950UW - Dual Channel Bus-Master PCI Ultra-Wide (253 CDB Per Channel)
52   ABP980 - Four Channel Bus-Master PCI (240 CDB Per Channel)
53   ABP980U - Four Channel Bus-Master PCI Ultra (240 CDB Per Channel)
54   ABP980UA/3980UA - Four Channel Bus-Master PCI Ultra (16 CDB Per Chan.)
55   ABP3950U2W - Bus-Master PCI LVD/Ultra2-Wide and Ultra-Wide (253 CDB)
56   ABP3950U3W - Bus-Master PCI Dual LVD2/Ultra3-Wide (253 CDB)
57
58Driver Compile Time Options and Debugging
59
60The following constants can be defined in the source file.
61
621. ADVANSYS_ASSERT - Enable driver assertions (Def: Enabled)
63
64   Enabling this option adds assertion logic statements to the
65   driver. If an assertion fails a message will be displayed to
66   the console, but the system will continue to operate. Any
67   assertions encountered should be reported to the person
68   responsible for the driver. Assertion statements may proactively
69   detect problems with the driver and facilitate fixing these
70   problems. Enabling assertions will add a small overhead to the
71   execution of the driver.
72
732. ADVANSYS_DEBUG - Enable driver debugging (Def: Disabled)
74
75   Enabling this option adds tracing functions to the driver and the
76   ability to set a driver tracing level at boot time. This option is
77   very useful for debugging the driver, but it will add to the size
78   of the driver execution image and add overhead to the execution of
79   the driver.
80
81   The amount of debugging output can be controlled with the global
82   variable 'asc_dbglvl'. The higher the number the more output. By
83   default the debug level is 0.
84
85   If the driver is loaded at boot time and the LILO Driver Option
86   is included in the system, the debug level can be changed by
87   specifying a 5th (ASC_NUM_IOPORT_PROBE + 1) I/O Port. The
88   first three hex digits of the pseudo I/O Port must be set to
89   'deb' and the fourth hex digit specifies the debug level: 0 - F.
90   The following command line will look for an adapter at 0x330
91   and set the debug level to 2.
92
93      linux advansys=0x330,0,0,0,0xdeb2
94
95   If the driver is built as a loadable module this variable can be
96   defined when the driver is loaded. The following insmod command
97   will set the debug level to one.
98
99      insmod advansys.o asc_dbglvl=1
100
101   Debugging Message Levels:
102      0: Errors Only
103      1: High-Level Tracing
104      2-N: Verbose Tracing
105
106   To enable debug output to console, please make sure that:
107
108   a. System and kernel logging is enabled (syslogd, klogd running).
109   b. Kernel messages are routed to console output. Check
110      /etc/syslog.conf for an entry similar to this:
111
112           kern.* /dev/console
113
114   c. klogd is started with the appropriate -c parameter
115      (e.g. klogd -c 8)
116
117   This will cause printk() messages to be be displayed on the
118   current console. Refer to the klogd(8) and syslogd(8) man pages
119   for details.
120
121   Alternatively you can enable printk() to console with this
122   program. However, this is not the 'official' way to do this.
123   Debug output is logged in /var/log/messages.
124
125     main()
126     {
127             syscall(103, 7, 0, 0);
128     }
129
130   Increasing LOG_BUF_LEN in kernel/printk.c to something like
131   40960 allows more debug messages to be buffered in the kernel
132   and written to the console or log file.
133
1343. ADVANSYS_STATS - Enable statistics (Def: Enabled)
135
136   Enabling this option adds statistics collection and display
137   through /proc to the driver. The information is useful for
138   monitoring driver and device performance. It will add to the
139   size of the driver execution image and add minor overhead to
140   the execution of the driver.
141
142   Statistics are maintained on a per adapter basis. Driver entry
143   point call counts and transfer size counts are maintained.
144   Statistics are only available for kernels greater than or equal
145   to v1.3.0 with the CONFIG_PROC_FS (/proc) file system configured.
146
147   AdvanSys SCSI adapter files have the following path name format:
148
149      /proc/scsi/advansys/{0,1,2,3,...}
150
151   This information can be displayed with cat. For example:
152
153      cat /proc/scsi/advansys/0
154
155   When ADVANSYS_STATS is not defined the AdvanSys /proc files only
156   contain adapter and device configuration information.
157
158Driver LILO Option
159
160If init/main.c is modified as described in the 'Directions for Adding
161the AdvanSys Driver to Linux' section (B.4.) above, the driver will
162recognize the 'advansys' LILO command line and /etc/lilo.conf option.
163This option can be used to either disable I/O port scanning or to limit
164scanning to 1 - 4 I/O ports. Regardless of the option setting EISA and
165PCI boards will still be searched for and detected. This option only
166affects searching for ISA and VL boards.
167
168Examples:
169  1. Eliminate I/O port scanning:
170       boot: linux advansys=
171         or
172       boot: linux advansys=0x0
173  2. Limit I/O port scanning to one I/O port:
174       boot: linux advansys=0x110
175  3. Limit I/O port scanning to four I/O ports:
176       boot: linux advansys=0x110,0x210,0x230,0x330
177
178For a loadable module the same effect can be achieved by setting
179the 'asc_iopflag' variable and 'asc_ioport' array when loading
180the driver, e.g.
181
182      insmod advansys.o asc_iopflag=1 asc_ioport=0x110,0x330
183
184If ADVANSYS_DEBUG is defined a 5th (ASC_NUM_IOPORT_PROBE + 1)
185I/O Port may be added to specify the driver debug level. Refer to
186the 'Driver Compile Time Options and Debugging' section above for
187more information.
188
189Credits (Chronological Order)
190
191Bob Frey <bfrey@turbolinux.com.cn> wrote the AdvanSys SCSI driver
192and maintained it up to 3.3F. He continues to answer questions
193and help maintain the driver.
194
195Nathan Hartwell <mage@cdc3.cdc.net> provided the directions and
196basis for the Linux v1.3.X changes which were included in the
1971.2 release.
198
199Thomas E Zerucha <zerucha@shell.portal.com> pointed out a bug
200in advansys_biosparam() which was fixed in the 1.3 release.
201
202Erik Ratcliffe <erik@caldera.com> has done testing of the
203AdvanSys driver in the Caldera releases.
204
205Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl> provided a patch to
206AscWaitTixISRDone() which he found necessary to make the
207driver work with a SCSI-1 disk.
208
209Mark Moran <mmoran@mmoran.com> has helped test Ultra-Wide
210support in the 3.1A driver.
211
212Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> has made changes and
213suggestions to improve the driver and done a lot of testing.
214
215Ken Mort <ken@mort.net> reported a DEBUG compile bug fixed
216in 3.2K.
217
218Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> provided the CONFIG_ISA
219patch and helped with PowerPC wide and narrow board support.
220
221Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> provided an
222advansys_interrupts_enabled patch.
223
224Dave Jones <dave@denial.force9.co.uk> reported the compiler
225warnings generated when CONFIG_PROC_FS was not defined in
226the 3.2M driver.
227
228Jerry Quinn <jlquinn@us.ibm.com> fixed PowerPC support (endian
229problems) for wide cards.
230
231Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe-data.com> helped debug narrow
232card error handling.
233
234Manuel Veloso <veloso@pobox.com> worked hard on PowerPC narrow
235board support and fixed a bug in AscGetEEPConfig().
236
237Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> made
238save_flags/restore_flags changes.
239
240Andy Kellner <AKellner@connectcom.net> continued the Advansys SCSI
241driver development for ConnectCom (Version > 3.3F).
242
243Ken Witherow for extensive testing during the development of version 3.4.
244

Archive Download this file



interactive