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

README for The Linux Operating System

The following information is available in this file:

Supported Hardware

Version History

Command Line Options

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

Multiplexed Twin Channel Device - One controller servicing two busses.

Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip.

Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list and SCB prefetch.

64 Byte SCB Support - Allows disconnected, untagged request table for all possible target/lun combinations.

Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain sequencer operations.

‘Bayonet’ style Scatter Gather Engine - Improves S/G prefetch performance.

Queuing Registers - Allows queuing of new transactions without pausing the sequencer.

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

No BIOS support

DEC21050 PCI-PCI bridge with multiple controller chips on secondary bus

DEC2115X PCI-PCI bridge with multiple controller chips on secondary bus

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.

4. Adaptec Customer Support¶

A Technical Support Identification (TSID) Number is required for Adaptec technical support.

The 12-digit TSID can be found on the white barcode-type label included inside the box with your product. The TSID helps us provide more efficient service by accurately identifying your product and support status.

Support Options

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North America

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Europe

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