NAME
si,
sw —
NCR 5380
SCSI bus host adaptor driver
SYNOPSIS
sun3
si0 at obio0 addr 0x140000 ipl 2
sun3 and sun3x
si0 at vme2 addr 0x200000 ipl 2 vect 0x40
si1 at vme2 addr 0x204000 ipl 2 vect 0x41
sun3/E
sebuf0 at vme2 addr 0x300000 ipl 2 vect 0x74 # and 0x75
sebuf1 at vme2 addr 0x340000 ipl 2 vect 0x76 # and 0x77
si* at sebuf?
sun4 and sun2
si0 at vme0 addr 0x200000 pri 2 vec 0x40
sun4/100
sw0 at obio0 addr 0x0a000000 level 3
DESCRIPTION
The
si and
sw “SCSI Weird”
drivers provide support for the NCR 5380 SCSI Bus Controller (SBC) chip found
on various Sun Microsystems CPU motherboards (obio), and on the “Sun-3
VME SCSI” (Sun part # 501-1236) board used in systems with VME bus.
sun3 and sun3x
The sun3 and sun3x version of this driver can be configured with a
flags directive in the
config(1) file. The values are
bits in a bitfield, and are interpreted as follows:
- 0x000ff
- Set bit (1<<target) to disable SCSI
disconnect/reselect
- 0x0ff00
- Set bit (1<<(target+8)) to disable SCSI parity
checking
- 0x10000
- Set this bit to disable DMA interrupts (poll)
- 0x20000
- Set this bit to disable DMA entirely (use PIO)
For example: “flags 0x1000f” would disable DMA interrupts, and
disable disconnect/reselect for targets 0-3. The “target” is the
SCSI ID number of a particular device on a particular SCSI bus.
sun4
The sun4 version of this driver can also be configured with a
flags directive in the
config(1) file. The values are
bits in a bitfield, and are interpreted as follows:
- 0x01
- Use DMA (may be polled)
- 0x02
- Use DMA completion interrupts
- 0x04
- Allow SCSI disconnect/reselect
For example: “flags 0x07” would enable DMA, interrupts, and
reselect. By default, DMA is enabled in the sun4 driver.
SEE ALSO
cd(4),
ch(4),
intro(4),
scsi(4),
sd(4),
st(4)
AUTHORS
David Jones,
Gordon Ross ⟨gwr@NetBSD.org⟩,
Adam Glass ⟨glass@NetBSD.org⟩,
Jason R. Thorpe ⟨thorpej@NetBSD.org⟩.
BUGS
The VME variant has a bit to enable or disable the DMA engine, but that bit also
gates the interrupt line from the NCR5380 (!!). Therefore, in order to get any
interrupt from the NCR5380, (i.e. for reselect) one must clear the DMA engine
transfer count and then enable DMA. This has the further complication that you
CAN NOT touch the NCR5380 while the DMA enable bit is set, so we have to turn
DMA back off before we even look at the NCR5380.
Support for the Sun 4/100
sw “SCSI Weird” is not
complete. DMA works, but interrupts (and, thus, reselection) don't for reasons
unknown. Further progress has halted pending the availability of a machine for
testing.
DMA, DMA completion interrupts, and reselection work fine on a Sun 4/260 with
modern SCSI-II disks attached. There have been reports of reselection failing
on Sun Shoebox-type configurations where there are multiple non-SCSI devices
behind Emulex or Adaptec bridges. These devices pre-date the SCSI-I spec, and
might not behave the way the NCR5380 code expects. For this reason, only DMA
is enabled by default in the sun4 driver.