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a discussion going on about removing this code from the burden of the GPL, but it won't happen before Beta, and this code should be tested before release. Supports 27/2842 class adaptec cards and is almost capable of supporting aic7870 based adapters (294X series cards). It does not support Wide controllers or the second channel on Twin boards although I have work in progress on getting both channels and running. I have also added a few performance improvements to this version that give us approximately a 25% boost over the original driver. These patches have been submitted to the author. Obtained from: Linux aic7770 driver (John Aycock - aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
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@(#)README 1.16 94/11/09 jda
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AHA274x/284x DRIVER
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*** THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BETA SOFTWARE ***
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BACKGROUND & LIMITATIONS
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For various reasons, we ended up with one of these cards under the
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impression that support was soon forthcoming. In mid-May, I asked
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Scott Ferris (the official person who's supposed to be writing this
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driver) what documentation he used, _finally_ got it from Adaptec,
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and started writing this driver. It is now at what I would consider
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a stable state - it runs our news server and is battered by SCSI
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requests 24 hours a day without dying. There are a few devices it
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reportedly doesn't like working with - those are being sorted out. Due
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to some unexpected equipment loans, I am able to support this at least
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for the time being.
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YOU MUST HAVE THE BIOS ENABLED OR THIS WILL NOT WORK. The BIOS extracts
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some configuration information that I cannot get to portably yet, as
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well as provides some self-tests which this driver does not attempt to
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duplicate.
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Scott's driver development is stalled for now, and after discussions
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with him, this is now officially out of "pre-alpha" status and into
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beta until the remaining device problems can be resolved. The latest
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patches can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in
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/pub/systems/linux/aha274x.
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It supports both EISA 274x and VL-bus 284x, either single or twin-bus cards
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(but not the second SCSI bus of twin cards - see aha274x.c), and supports
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disconnection, synchronous SCSI, and scatter-gather. Unlike previous
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versions, abort() and reset() are now implemented, and both hosts.c and
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aha274x.c should give a clean compile. Code is now present to detect parity
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errors, but has not been tested.
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I wrote this using a 1.0.9 kernel. Unfortunately, I'm getting tired of
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#ifdef'ing everything to handle two or three different evolutionary steps
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in the SCSI kernel code, so I've upgraded my system to 1.1.49, and will
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only leave in code to support versions from about 1.1.45 onward.
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Thanks to patches supplied by Mark Olson <molson@tricord.com>, this driver
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will now work with the 284x series (the VL-bus version of this card). The
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294x (PCI-bus) support is based on patches sent to me by Mark Olson and
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Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>.
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Under protest, this driver is subject to the GPL - see the file
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COPYING for details.
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Thanks to the following people for bug fixes/code improvements (also
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thanks to the people who have sent me feedback):
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"David F. Carlson" <dave@ee.rochester.edu>
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Jimen Ching <jiching@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
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mday@artisoft.com (Matt Day)
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"Dean W. Gehnert" <deang@ims.com>
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Darcy Grant <darcy@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
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isely@fncrd8.fnal.gov (Mike Isely)
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Mike Jerger <jerger@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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tm@netcom.com (Toshiyasu Morita)
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neal@interact.org (Neal Norwitz)
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Mark Olson <molson@tricord.com>
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map@europa.ecn.uoknor.edu (Michael A. Parker)
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Thomas Scheunemann <thomas@dagobert.uni-duisburg.de>
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Special thanks to Drew Eckhardt <drew@kinglear.cs.Colorado.EDU> for
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fielding my questions about synchronous negotiation. Steffen Moeller
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<smoe0024@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> sent me installation instructions which
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were previously included in this README.
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David Pirie <pirie@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> was nice enough to loan me his
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2842 card for a week so I could track down one bug, as well as his
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CD-ROM drive later, and also thanks to Doug Fortune at Riley's Data Share
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in Calgary, who arranged a long-term loan of a 2842 board for further work.
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Many thanks to the fearless prerelease testers! Dean Gehnert has been
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building Slackware boot disks for the driver, which are available from
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ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in /pub/systems/linux/aha274x/slackware_boot.
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Carl Riches <cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu> has set up a mailing list
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for aic7xxx driver development. To subscribe, send a message to
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aic7770-list@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu with a message body of:
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subscribe AIC7770-LIST <your name here, without the angle brackets>
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Please direct questions and discussions to that list instead of me. When
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sending bug reports, please include a description of your hardware, the
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release numbers displayed by the driver at boot time, and as accurate a
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facsimilie of any error message you're mailing about.
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John Aycock
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aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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