patch-1.3.4 linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx

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• Date: Mon Jun 26 12:42:51 1995
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+@(#)README 1.19 94/11/30 jda
+
+AHA274x/284x/294x DRIVER
+
+***  THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BETA SOFTWARE  ***
+
+BACKGROUND & LIMITATIONS
+
+For various reasons, we ended up with one of these cards under the
+impression that support was soon forthcoming.  In mid-May, I asked
+Scott Ferris (the official person who's supposed to be writing this
+driver) what documentation he used, _finally_ got it from Adaptec,
+and started writing this driver.  It is now at what I would consider
+a stable state - it runs our news server and is battered by SCSI
+requests 24 hours a day without dying.  There are a few devices it
+reportedly doesn't like working with - those are being sorted out.  Due
+to some unexpected equipment loans, I am able to support this at least
+for the time being.
+
+YOU MUST HAVE THE BIOS ENABLED OR THIS WILL NOT WORK.  The BIOS extracts
+some configuration information that I cannot get to portably yet, as
+well as provides some self-tests which this driver does not attempt to
+duplicate.
+
+Scott's driver development is stalled for now, and after discussions
+with him, this is now officially out of "pre-alpha" status and into
+beta until the remaining device problems can be resolved.  The latest
+patches can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in
+/pub/systems/linux/aha274x.
+
+It supports EISA 274x, VL-bus 284x, and PCI 294x, either single or twin-bus
+cards (but not the second SCSI bus of twin cards - see aha274x.c), and supports
+disconnection, synchronous SCSI, and scatter-gather.  Unlike previous
+versions, abort() and reset() are now implemented, and both hosts.c and
+aha274x.c should give a clean compile.  Code is now present to detect parity
+errors, but has not been tested.  Wide cards are not yet supported.
+
+I wrote this using a 1.0.9 kernel.  Unfortunately, I'm getting tired of
+#ifdef'ing everything to handle two or three different evolutionary steps
+in the SCSI kernel code, so I've upgraded my system to 1.1.49, and will
+only leave in code to support versions from about 1.1.45 onward.
+
+Thanks to patches supplied by Mark Olson <molson@tricord.com>, this driver
+will now work with the 284x series (the VL-bus version of this card).  The
+294x (PCI-bus) support is based on patches sent to me by Mark Olson and
+Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>.
+
+Under protest, this driver is subject to the GPL - see the file
+COPYING for details.
+
+Thanks to the following people for bug fixes/code improvements (also
+thanks to the people who have sent me feedback):
+
+	"David F. Carlson" <dave@ee.rochester.edu>
+	Jimen Ching <jiching@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
+	mday@artisoft.com (Matt Day)
+	"Dean W. Gehnert" <deang@ims.com>
+	Darcy Grant <darcy@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
+	Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
+	isely@fncrd8.fnal.gov (Mike Isely)
+	Mike Jerger <jerger@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
+	tm@netcom.com (Toshiyasu Morita)
+	neal@interact.org (Neal Norwitz)
+	Mark Olson <molson@tricord.com>
+	map@europa.ecn.uoknor.edu (Michael A. Parker)
+	Thomas Scheunemann <thomas@dagobert.uni-duisburg.de>
+	Eric Youngdale <eric@aib.com>
+
+Special thanks to Drew Eckhardt <drew@kinglear.cs.Colorado.EDU> for
+fielding my questions about synchronous negotiation.  Steffen Moeller
+<smoe0024@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> sent me installation instructions which
+were previously included in this README.
+
+David Pirie <pirie@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> was nice enough to loan me his
+2842 card for a week so I could track down one bug, as well as his
+CD-ROM drive later, and also thanks to Doug Fortune at Riley's Data Share
+in Calgary, who arranged a long-term loan of a 2842 board for further work.
+
+Many thanks to the fearless prerelease testers!  Dean Gehnert has been
+building Slackware boot disks for the driver, which are available from
+ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in /pub/systems/linux/aha274x/slackware_boot.
+
+Carl Riches <cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu> has set up a mailing list
+for aic7xxx driver development.  To subscribe, send a message to
+aic7770-list-request@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu with a message body of:
+
+    subscribe AIC7770-LIST <your name here, without the angle brackets>
+
+Please direct questions and discussions to that list instead of me.  When
+sending bug reports, please include a description of your hardware, the
+release numbers displayed by the driver at boot time, and as accurate a
+facsimile of any error message you're mailing about.
+
+John Aycock
+aycock@cpsc.ucalgary.ca