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Name

isp - ISP SCSI Host Bus Adapter Driver

Synopsis

isp@sbus-slot,10000

Description

The isp Host Bus Adapter is a SCSA compliant nexus driver that supports the Qlogic ISP1000 SCSI chip on Sun SBus SPARC machines. The ISP is an intelligent SCSI Host Bus Adapter chip that reduces the amount of CPU overhead used in a SCSI transfer.

The isp driver supports the standard functions provided by the SCSA interface. The driver supports tagged and untagged queuing, fast and wide SCSI , and auto request sense, but does not support linked commands.

Configuration

The isp driver can be configured by defining properties in isp.conf which override the global SCSI settings. Supported properties are scsi-options, target<n>-scsi-options, scsi-reset-delay, scsi-watchdog-tick, scsi-tag-age-limit, scsi-initiator-id.

target<n>-scsi-options overrides the scsi-options property value for target<n>.
<n> can vary from 0 to 15.

Refer to scsi_hba_attach(9F) for details.

Examples

Create a file /kernel/drv/isp.conf and add this line:

scsi-options=0x78;

This will disable tagged queuing, fast SCSI , and Wide mode for all isp instances. To disable an option for one specific isp (refer to driver.conf(4) ): 


name="isp"  parent="/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000"
       reg=1,0x10000,0x450
       target1-scsi-options=0x58
       scsi-options=0x178 scsi-initiator-id=6;

Note that the default initiator ID in OBP is 7 and that the change to ID 6 will occur at attach time. It may be preferable to change the initiator ID in OBP.

The above would set scsi-options for target 1 to 0x58 and for all other targets on this SCSI bus to 0x178.

The physical pathname of the parent can be determined using the /devices tree or following the link of the logical device name: 


example# ls -l /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root  76 Aug 22 13:29 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0 -> 
../../devices/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/QLGC,isp@1,10000/sd@0,0:a,raw

The register property values can be determined from prtconf(1M) output (-v option): 


       QLGC,isp, instance #0
    ...
           Register Specifications:
               Bus Type=0x1, Address=0x10000, Size=450

Files

/kernel/drv/isp
ELF Kernel Module
/kernel/drv/isp.conf
Configuration file

See Also

prtconf(1M) , driver.conf(4) , scsi_abort(9F) , scsi_hba_attach(9F) , scsi_ifgetcap(9F) , scsi_reset(9F) , scsi_transport(9F) , scsi_device(9S) , scsi_extended_sense(9S) , scsi_inquiry(9S) , scsi_pkt(9S)

OpenBoot Command Refernce

ANSI Small Computer System Interface-2 (SCSI-2)

ISP1000 Firmware Interface Specification, QLogic Corp.

ISP1000 Technical Manual, QLogic Corp.

Diagnostics

The messages described below are some that may appear on the system console, as well as being logged.

This first set of messages may be displayed while the isp driver is first trying to attach. All of these messages mean that the isp driver was unable to attach. These messages are preceded by "isp%d", where "%d" is the instance number of the isp controller.

Device in slave-only slot, unused
The SBus device has been placed in a slave-only slot and will not be accessible; move to non-slave-only SBus slot.
Device is using a hilevel intr, unused
The device was configured with an interrupt level that cannot be used with this isp driver. Check the SBus device.
Failed to alloc soft state
Driver was unable to allocate space for the internal state structure. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices will be inaccessible.
Bad soft state
Driver requested an invalid internal state structure. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices will be inaccessible.
Unable to map registers
Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices will be inaccessible.
Cannot add intr
Driver was not able to add the interrupt routine to the kernel. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices will be inaccessible.
Unable to attach
Driver was unable to attach to the hardware for some reason that may be printed. Driver did not attach to device; SCSI devices will be inaccessible.

This next set of messages can be displayed at any time. They will be printed with the full device pathname followed by the shorter form described above.

Firmware should be < 0x%x bytes
Firmware size exceeded allocated space and ill not download firmware. This could mean that the firmware was corrupted somehow. Check the isp driver.
Firmware checksum incorrect
Firmware has an invalid checksum and will not be downloaded.
Chip reset timeout
ISP chip failed to reset in the time allocated; may be bad hardware.
Stop firmware failed
Stopping the firmware failed; may be bad hardware.
Load ram failed
Unable to download new firmware into the ISP chip.
DMA setup failed
The DMA setup failed in the host adapter driver on a scsi_pkt. This will return TRAN_BADPKT to a SCSA target driver.
Bad request pkt
The ISP Firmware rejected the packet as being set up incorrectly. This will cause the isp driver to call the target completion routine with the reason of CMD_TRAN_ERR set in the scsi_pkt. Check the target driver for correctly setting up the packet.
Bad request pkt header
The ISP Firmware rejected the packet as being set up incorrectly. This will cause the isp driver to call the target completion routine with the reason of CMD_TRAN_ERR set in the scsi_pkt. Check the target driver for correctly setting up the packet.
Polled command timeout on %d.%d
A polled command experienced a timeout. The target device, as noted by the target lun (%d.%d) information, may not be responding correctly to the command, or the ISP chip may be hung. This will cause an error recovery to be initiated in the isp driver. This could mean a bad device or cabling.
Firmware error
The ISP chip encountered a firmware error of some kind. This error will cause the isp driver to do error recovery by resetting the chip.
Received unexpected SCSI Reset
The ISP chip received an unexpected SCSI Reset and has initiated its own internal error recovery, which will return all the scsi_pkt with reason set to CMD_RESET .
Fatal timeout on target %d.%d
The isp driver found a command that had not completed in the correct amount of time; this will cause error recovery by the isp driver. The device that experienced the timeout was at target lun (%d.%d).
Fatal error, resetting interface
This is an indication that the isp driver is doing error recovery. This will cause all outstanding commands that have been transported to the isp driver to be completed via the scsi_pkt completion routine in the target driver with reason of CMD_RESET and status of STAT_BUS_RESET set in the scsi_pkt.

Notes

The isp driver exports properties indicating per target the negotiated transfer speed (target<n>-sync-speed), whether tagged queuing has been enabled (target<n>-TQ), and whether the wide data transfer has been negotiated (target<n>-wide). The sync-speed property value is the data transfer rate in KB/sec. The target-TQ and target-wide properties have no value. The existence of these properties indicate that tagged queuing or wide transfer has been enabled. Refer to prtconf(1M) (verbose option) for viewing the isp properties. 

            QLGC,isp, instance #2
                Driver software properties:
                    name <target0-TQ> length <0> -- <no value>.
                    name <target0-wide> length <0> -- <no value>.
                    name <target0-sync-speed> length <4>
                        value <0x000028f5>.
                    name <scsi-options> length <4>
                        value <0x000003f8>.
                    name <scsi-watchdog-tick> length <4>
                        value <0x0000000a>.
                    name <scsi-tag-age-limit> length <4>
                        value <0x00000008>.
                    name <scsi-reset-delay> length <4>
                        value <0x00000bb8>.

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