README.dtc3x80
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- README file for the Linux DTC3180/3280 scsi driver.
- by Ray Van Tassle (rayvt@comm.mot.com) March 1996
- Based on the generic & core NCR5380 code by Drew Eckhard
- SCSI device driver for the DTC 3180/3280.
- Data Technology Corp---a division of Qume.
- The 3280 has a standard floppy interface.
- The 3180 does not. Otherwise, they are identical.
- The DTC3x80 does not support DMA but it does have Pseudo-DMA which is
- supported by the driver.
- It's DTC406 scsi chip is supposedly compatible with the NCR 53C400.
- It is memory mapped, uses an IRQ, but no dma or io-port. There is
- internal DMA, between SCSI bus and an on-chip 128-byte buffer. Double
- buffering is done automagically by the chip. Data is transferred
- between the on-chip buffer and CPU/RAM via memory moves.
- The driver detects the possible memory addresses (jumper selectable):
- CC00, DC00, C800, and D800
- The possible IRQ's (jumper selectable) are:
- IRQ 10, 11, 12, 15
- Parity is supported by the chip, but not by this driver.
- Information can be obtained from /proc/scsi/dtc3c80/N.
- Note on interrupts:
- The documentation says that it can be set to interrupt whenever the
- on-chip buffer needs CPU attention. I couldn't get this to work. So
- the driver polls for data-ready in the pseudo-DMA transfer routine.
- The interrupt support routines in the NCR3280.c core modules handle
- scsi disconnect/reconnect, and this (mostly) works. However..... I
- have tested it with 4 totally different hard drives (both SCSI-1 and
- SCSI-2), and one CDROM drive. Interrupts works great for all but one
- specific hard drive. For this one, the driver will eventually hang in
- the transfer state. I have tested with: "dd bs=4k count=2k
- of=/dev/null if=/dev/sdb". It reads ok for a while, then hangs.
- After beating my head against this for a couple of weeks, getting
- nowhere, I give up. So.....This driver does NOT use interrupts, even
- if you have the card jumpered to an IRQ. Probably nobody will ever
- care.