Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.rst

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============
SYM-2 driver
============

Written by Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>

21 Rue Carnot

95170 DEUIL LA BARRE - FRANCE

Updated by Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>

2004-10-09

.. Contents

   1.  Introduction
   2.  Supported chips and SCSI features
   3.  Advantages of this driver for newer chips.
         3.1 Optimized SCSI SCRIPTS
         3.2 New features appeared with the SYM53C896
   4.  Memory mapped I/O versus normal I/O
   5.  Tagged command queueing
   6.  Parity checking
   7.  Profiling information
   8.  Control commands
         8.1  Set minimum synchronous period
         8.2  Set wide size
         8.3  Set maximum number of concurrent tagged commands
         8.4  Set debug mode
         8.5  Set flag (no_disc)
         8.6  Set verbose level
         8.7  Reset all logical units of a target
         8.8  Abort all tasks of all logical units of a target
   9.  Configuration parameters
   10. Boot setup commands
         10.1 Syntax
         10.2 Available arguments
                10.2.1  Default number of tagged commands
                10.2.2  Burst max
                10.2.3  LED support
                10.2.4  Differential mode
                10.2.5  IRQ mode
                10.2.6  Check SCSI BUS
                10.2.7  Suggest a default SCSI id for hosts
                10.2.8  Verbosity level
                10.2.9  Debug mode
                10.2.10 Settle delay
                10.2.11 Serial NVRAM
                10.2.12 Exclude a host from being attached
         10.3 Converting from old options
         10.4 SCSI BUS checking boot option
   11. SCSI problem troubleshooting
         15.1 Problem tracking
         15.2 Understanding hardware error reports
   12. Serial NVRAM support (by Richard Waltham)
         17.1 Features
         17.2 Symbios NVRAM layout
         17.3 Tekram  NVRAM layout


1. Introduction
===============

This driver supports the whole SYM53C8XX family of PCI-SCSI controllers.
It also support the subset of LSI53C10XX PCI-SCSI controllers that are based
on the SYM53C8XX SCRIPTS language.

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