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ISP(4)                  NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                 ISP(4)


NAME

     isp -- Qlogic based SCSI and FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters


SYNOPSIS

     isp* at pci? dev? function? (PCI)
     isp* at sbus? slot ? offset ? (SBus)
     scsibus* at isp?


DESCRIPTION

     This driver provides access to SCSI or FibreChannel devices.

     SCSI features include support for Ultra SCSI and wide mode transactions
     for SCSI, and LVD (for the ISP1080 and ISP1280),

     Fibre Channel support uses FCP SCSI profile for FibreChannel.  and uses
     Class 3 connections only.  Support is available for Public and Private
     loops.  Command tagging is supported for all (in fact, FibreChannel
     requires tagging).


CONFIGURATION

     An optional flags 0x80 appended to the above isp* declarations will dis-
     able the download of driver firmware, which means you use whatever
     firmware is running on the card.  If no firmware is running on the card,
     the driver cannot operate the card.

     An optional flags 0x40 appended to the above isp* declarations (can be
     OR'd in with the other config flags option) will keep the driver from
     looking at device or bus NVRAM settings (this is in case NVRAM is just
     wrong and you have the card in a platform where it is inconvenient to
     change NVRAM settings on the card).


HARDWARE

     Supported cards include:

           ISP1000
                   SBus Fast Wide, Ultra Fast Wide cards, Single Ended or Dif-
                   ferential cards.

           PTI SBS440
                   Performance Technology ISP1000 variants.

           ISP1020
                   Qlogic 1020 Fast Wide and Differential Fast Wide PCI cards.

           ISP1040
                   Qlogic 1040 Ultra Wide and Differential Ultra Wide PCI
                   cards.

           PTI SBS450
                   Performance Technology ISP1040 variants.

           Qlogic 1240
                   Qlogic 1240 Dual Bus Ultra Wide and Differential Ultra Wide
                   PCI cards.

           Qlogic 1080
                   Qlogic 1280 LVD Ultra2 Wide PCI cards.

           Qlogic 1280
                   Qlogic 1280 Dual Bus LVD Ultra2 Wide PCI cards.

           Qlogic 2100
                   Qlogic 2100 and 2100A Copper and Optical Fibre Channel
                   Arbitrated Loop

           Qlogic 2102
                   Qlogic Dual Loop 2100A Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated
                   Loop PCI cards.

           Qlogic 2200
                   Qlogic 2200 Copper and Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated
                   Loop PCI cards.

           Qlogic 2202
                   Qlogic 2200 Dual Bus Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
                   PCI cards.

           Qlogic 2204
                   Qlogic 2200 Quad Bus Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
                   PCI cards.

           Qlogic 2300
                   Qlogic 2300 2-Gigabit Optical Fibre Channel PCI cards.

           Qlogic 2312
                   Qlogic 2300 2-Gigabit Dual Channel Optical Fibre Channel
                   PCI cards.

           PTI SBS470
                   Performance Technology ISP2100 variants.

           Antares P-0033
                   Antares Microsystems ISP2100 variants.


SEE ALSO

     cd(4), intro(4), scsi(4), sd(4), st(4)


AUTHORS

     The isp driver was written by Matthew Jacob for NASA/Ames Research Cen-
     ter.


BUGS

     The driver currently ignores some NVRAM settings.

     The driver currently doesn't do error recovery for timed out commands
     very gracefully.

     Sometimes, when booting, the driver gets stuck waiting for the Fibre
     Channel firmware to tell it that the loop port database is ready.  In
     this case you'll see an announcement that the loop state has a value of
     0x1.  To unwedge the system, unplug and replug the fibre channel connec-
     tion, or otherwise cause a LIP (Loop Initialization Primitive sequence) -
     this will kick the firmware into getting unstuck.

NetBSD 3.1.1                    March 25, 1999                    NetBSD 3.1.1