Subject: Re: Fixes to use 16 SCSI targets with FAS on Ultra 1E
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/25/2002 23:40:58
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:41:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:57:02PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > 
> >    On my Ultra 1/170E, this fix enabled FAS to recognize 16 targets, not 8 
> >    targets.
> >    I tested with 6 additional SCSI HDDs with SCSI ID 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
> >    I intended flags for esp driver for FAS to work as
> >    
> >        bits 0-7:   disable disconnect/rselect for SCSI target 0-7
> >        bits 8-15:  disable synchronous negotiation for SCSI target 0-7
> >        bits 16-23: disable disconnect/rselect for SCSI target 8-15
> >        bits 24-31: disable synchronous negotiation for SCSI target 8-15
> >    
> >    However, since bit 16-23 is used to disable tagged queuing for SCSI target 
> >    0-7, this is ad-hoc approach.
> > 
> > 
> > perhaps a "flags2" locator then?  it can provide the same services for
> > scsi id's 8..15 in bits 0..23.
> 
> I really think these flags should be handled by the SCSI device driver,
> not the SCSI HBA driver, much like is done for IDE.
> 

That might require 'wiring' everything (controllers and devices) in config
file. Does it?

	Andrey