question about aic7xxx

Alexey Zhuravlev alexey at udm.ru
Fri Jan 18 10:25:52 PST 2002


Thank you very much. I'll try to use you replies in my work

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:20:53 -0700
"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs at scsiguy.com> wrote:

>>Is there the way to know last events and messages related to that tag
>>in aic7xxx ?

JTG> Depending on the type of card you are using, you could record
JTG> additional
JTG> state in the "status packet" of that transactions control block. 
JTG> This
JTG> would require modification of the firmware and a bit of thought about
JTG> which bytes are available to be used for this purpose.  Due to time

JTG> contraints on our U320 driver schedule, I can't commit time in the
JTG> near future to add these kinds of diagnostics.  As far as the "last

JTG> message seen", it should have been a disconnect message as that
JTG> transaction
JTG> is on the disconnected list.  Trasactions are removed from the
JTG> disconnection
JTG> list on a reselection and are only added to the disconnect list when
JTG> that message is seen.  The firware waits for bus free after a
JTG> disconnect
JTG> message and will complain if it doesn't see one before the next REQ
JTG> to it on the bus.

JTG> --
JTG> Justin

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