Adaptec Aic7xxx Fast -> Ultra160 Family Manager Set v7.0

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, untagged 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-50M SE-HD68F  
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-50M HVD-HD68F  
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-50M HVD-HD68F  
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-50M SE-HD68F 4
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 SE-HD68F SE-50M LVD-HD68F  
AHA-2950U2B aic7891 PCI/64 LVD-HD68F LVD-HD68F  
AHA-2930U2 aic7890 PCI/32 LVD-HD68F SE-50M SE-HD50F  
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-50M SE-HD50F  
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 LVD-50M 2 X LVD-VHD68F  
AHA-3960D CPQ aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F LVD-50M 2 X LVD-VHD68F  
AHA-39160 aic7899 PCI/64-66 2 X LVD-HD68F LVD-50M 2 X LVD-VHD68F  
  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

  • 7.0 (4th August, 2005)
    • Updated driver to use SCSI transport class infrastructure
    • Upported sequencer and core fixes from last adaptec released version of the driver.
  • 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 introduced in 6.2.29 that could cause 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.

Put a .conf file in the /etc/modprobe.d directory and add/edit a line containing options aic7xxx aic7xxx=[command[,command...]] where command is one or more of the following:

verbose

Definition:enable additional informative messages during driver operation.
Possible Values:
 This option is a flag
Default Value:disabled

debug:[value]

Definition:Enables various levels of debugging information
Possible Values:
 0x0000 = no debugging, 0xffff = full debugging
Default Value:0x0000

no_probe

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.

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

no_reset

Definition:Do not reset the bus during the initial probe phase
Possible Values:
 This option is a flag
Default Value:disabled

extended

Definition:Force extended translation on the controller
Possible Values:
 This option is a flag
Default Value:disabled

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

reverse_scan

Definition:Probe the scsi bus in reverse order, starting with target 15
Possible Values:
 This option is a flag
Default Value:disabled

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

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 omitted indicating that they should retain the default tag depth.
Possible Values:
 1 - 253
Default Value:32

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.

seltime:[value]

Definition:Specifies the selection timeout value
Possible Values:
 0 = 256ms, 1 = 128ms, 2 = 64ms, 3 = 32ms
Default Value:0

dv: {value[,value…]}

Definition:

Set Domain Validation Policy on a per-controller basis. Controllers may be omitted indicating that they should retain the default read streaming setting.
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:

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.

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.

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