2 .\" Device driver optimized for the Symbios/LSI 53C896/53C895A/53C1010
3 .\" PCI SCSI controllers.
5 .\" Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
7 .\" This driver also supports the following Symbios/LSI PCI SCSI chips:
8 .\" 53C810A, 53C825A, 53C860, 53C875, 53C876, 53C885, 53C895,
9 .\" 53C810, 53C815, 53C825 and the 53C1510D is 53C8XX mode.
12 .\" This driver for FreeBSD-CAM is derived from the Linux sym53c8xx driver.
13 .\" Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Gerard Roudier
15 .\" The sym53c8xx driver is derived from the ncr53c8xx driver that had been
16 .\" a port of the FreeBSD ncr driver to Linux-1.2.13.
18 .\" The original ncr driver has been written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by
19 .\" Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@cologne.de>
20 .\" Stefan Esser <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de>
21 .\" Copyright (C) 1994 Wolfgang Stanglmeier
23 .\" The initialization code, and part of the code that addresses
24 .\" FreeBSD-CAM services is based on the aic7xxx driver for FreeBSD-CAM
25 .\" written by Justin T. Gibbs.
27 .\" Other major contributions:
29 .\" NVRAM detection and reading.
30 .\" Copyright (C) 1997 Richard Waltham <dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk>
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64 .Nd NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX PCI SCSI host adapter driver
66 To compile this driver into the kernel,
67 place the following lines in your
68 kernel configuration file:
69 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
75 To disable PCI parity checking (needed for broken bridges):
76 .Cd "options SYM_SETUP_PCI_PARITY=<boolean>"
78 To control driver probing against HVD buses:
79 .Cd "options SYM_SETUP_SCSI_DIFF=<bit combination>"
81 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
82 module at boot time, place the following line in
84 .Bd -literal -offset indent
88 This driver provides support for the Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX
91 Driver features include support for wide SCSI busses and fast10, fast20,
92 fast40 and fast80-dt synchronous data transfers depending on controller
94 It also provides generic SCSI features such as tagged command
95 queueing and auto-request sense.
96 This driver is configured by default
97 for a maximum of 446 outstanding commands per bus, 8 LUNs per target
98 and 64 tagged tasks per LUN.
99 These numbers are not so much limited by design
100 as they are considered reasonable values for current SCSI technology.
101 These values can be increased by changing appropriate
102 constants in driver header files (not recommended).
104 This driver supports the entire Symbios 53C8XX family of PCI SCSI
106 It also offers the advantage of architectural improvements available
107 only with newer chips.
110 notably handles phase mismatch from SCRIPTS for the 53C896, 53C895A,
112 As a result, it guarantees that no more than 1 interrupt
113 per IO completion is delivered to the CPU, and that the SCRIPTS processor
114 is never stalled waiting for CPU attention in normal situations.
117 also uses LOAD/STORE SCRIPTS instructions for chips that support it.
118 Only the early 810, 815 and 825 NCR chips do not support LOAD/STORE.
119 Use of LOAD/STORE instead of MEMORY MOVE allows SCRIPTS to access IO
120 registers internal to the chip (no external PCI cycles).
121 As a result, the driver guarantees that no PCI self-mastering will occur
122 for chips that support LOAD/STORE.
124 LOAD/STORE instructions are also faster than MEMORY MOVE because
125 they do not involve the chip DMA FIFO and are coded on 2 DWORDs
128 For the early NCR 810, 815 and 825 chips, the driver uses a separate
129 SCRIPTS set that uses MEMORY MOVE instructions for data movements.
130 This is because LOAD/STORE are not supported by these chips.
132 HVD/LVD capable controllers (895, 895A, 896, and 897) report
133 the actual bus mode in the STEST4 chip IO registers.
135 allows the driver to safely probe against bus mode and to set up the chip
137 By default the driver only supports HVD for these chips.
138 For other chips that can support HVD but not LVD, the driver has to probe
139 implementation dependent registers (GPIO) in order to detect HVD bus mode.
140 Only HVD implementations that conform with Symbios Logic recommendations can
141 be detected by the driver.
143 .Ar SYM_SETUP_SCSI_DIFF
144 kernel option is assigned
145 a value of 1, the driver will also probe against HVD for 825a, 875, 876 and
146 885 chips, assuming Symbios Logic compatible implementation of HVD.
149 .Ar SYM_SETUP_PCI_PARITY
150 is assigned a value of 0, the
151 driver will not enable PCI parity checking for 53C8XX devices.
153 checking should not be an option for PCI SCSI controllers, but some
154 systems have been reported to fail using 53C8XX chips, due to spurious or
155 permanent PCI parity errors detected.
156 This option is supplied for
157 convenience but it is neither recommended nor supported.
159 This driver offers other options
160 that are not currently exported to the user.
161 They are defined and documented in the
164 Changing these options is not recommended unless absolutely necessary.
166 options are planned to be exported through
168 or an equivalent mechanism
169 in a future driver releases and therefore,
170 no compatibility is guaranteed.
172 At initialization, the driver tries to detect and read user settings from
174 The Symbios/Logic NVRAM layout and the Tekram NVRAM
175 layout are currently supported.
176 If the reading of the NVRAM succeeds, the
177 following settings are taken into account and reported to CAM:
178 .Bl -column "SCSI parity checking" "Symbios"
179 .It Em "Host settings Symbios Tekram"
180 .It "SCSI parity checking Y N"
181 .It "Host SCSI ident Y Y"
182 .It "Verbose messages Y N"
183 .It "Scan targets hi-lo Y N"
184 .It "Avoid SCSI bus reset Y N"
186 .Bl -column "Synchronous period" "Symbios"
187 .It Em "Device settings Symbios Tekram"
188 .It "Synchronous period Y Y"
189 .It "SCSI bus width Y Y"
190 .It "Queue tag enable Y Y"
191 .It "Number of tags NA Y"
192 .It "Disconnect enable Y Y"
193 .It "Scan at boot time Y N"
197 Devices that are configured as disabled for 'scan' in the NVRAM are not
198 reported to CAM at system start-up.
199 They can be discovered later using
201 .Ql camcontrol rescan
204 The table below summarizes the main features and capabilities of the
205 NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX family of PCI SCSI controllers.
206 .Bl -column sym53c1510d "80MHz" "Width" "SRAM" "PCI64"
207 .It Em "Chip Sync Width SRAM PCI64 Supported"
208 .It "sym53c810 10MHz 8Bit N N Y"
209 .It "sym53c810a 10MHz 8Bit N N Y"
210 .It "sym53c815 10MHz 8Bit N N Y"
211 .It "sym53c825 10MHz 16Bit N N Y"
212 .It "sym53c825a 10MHz 16Bit 4KB N Y"
213 .It "sym53c860 20MHz 8Bit N N Y"
214 .It "sym53c875 20MHz 16Bit 4KB N Y"
215 .It "sym53c876 20MHz 16Bit 4KB N Y"
216 .It "sym53c885 20MHz 16Bit 4KB N Y"
217 .It "sym53c895 40MHz 16Bit 4KB N Y"
218 .It "sym53c895A 40MHz 16Bit 8KB N Y"
219 .It "sym53c896 40MHz 16Bit 8KB Y Y"
220 .It "sym53c897 40MHz 16Bit 8KB Y Y"
221 .It "sym53c1510D 40MHz 16Bit 4KB Y Y"
222 .It "sym53c1010 80MHz 16Bit 8KB Y Y"
227 driver provides support for the following Symbios/LSI Logic PCI SCSI
267 The SCSI controllers supported by
269 can be either embedded on a motherboard, or on
270 one of the following add-on boards:
276 Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
280 Diamond FirePort (all)
286 Tekram DC390W, 390U, 390F, 390U2B, 390U2W, 390U3D, and 390U3W
291 The DEC KZPCA-AA is a rebadged SYM8952U.
307 driver was written by
309 and is derived from the
310 Linux sym53c8xx driver from the same author.
311 The sym53c8xx driver is derived from the ncr53c8xx driver,
312 which was ported from the
315 driver to Linux-1.2.13.
318 driver was written for
323 .An Wolfgang Stanglmeier