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25.Dd September 28, 1999
26.Dt DPT 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm dpt
30.Nd
31DPT EATA
32.Tn SCSI
33adapter driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "dpt* at isa? port ? irq ? dma ?"
36.Cd "dpt* at eisa? slot ?"
37.Cd "dpt* at pci? dev ? function ?"
38.Cd "scsibus* at dpt?"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42driver provides support for third and fourth generation DPT
43.Tn SCSI
44controllers.  All communication with the controllers is conducted via the
45EATA (Enhanced AT Bus Attachment) protocol.
46.Pp
47DPT adapters examine and interpret all
48.Tn SCSI
49commands received before passing them to any underlying physical device(s).
50In this way, caching, RAID and other transformations are achieved while
51remaining transparent to the host operating system.
52.Sh HARDWARE
53The
54.Nm
55driver provides support for the adapters listed below.  Later models are
56supported by the
57.Nm iop
58driver.
59.Pp
60.Bl -tag -width Dv -offset indent -compact
61.It Tn DPT SmartCache III
62.It Tn DPT SmartCache IV
63.It Tn DPT SmartRAID III
64.It Tn DPT SmartRAID IV
65.El
66.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
67None of these messages should be encountered under normal circumstances.  It
68should be noted that the list below is not complete.
69.Pp
70.Bl -tag -width indent
71.It dpt%d: readcfg failed - see dpt(4)
72.br
73The EATA configuration data did not appear upon request.  This may be caused
74by older firmware.  Generally the solution is to power-cycle the affected
75machine.
76.br
77.It dpt%d: spurious intr
78.br
79A spurious interrupt was received from the HBA.
80.br
81.It dpt%d: bogus status (returned CCB id NNNN)
82.br
83A corrupt or incomplete status packet was received from the HBA.
84.El
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr cd 4 ,
87.Xr ch 4 ,
88.Xr intro 4 ,
89.Xr iop 4 ,
90.Xr scsi 4 ,
91.Xr sd 4 ,
92.Xr st 4
93.Pp
94CAM committee standard CAM/89-004 - the EATA (Enhanced AT Bus Attachment)
95protocol.
96.Sh HISTORY
97The
98.Nm dpt
99driver first appeared in
100.Nx 1.4.2 .
101.Sh AUTHORS
102The
103.Nm
104driver was written by
105.An Andrew Doran Aq ad@netbsd.org ,
106based upon the
107.Nm uha
108and
109.Nm bha
110drivers, which are the work of others.
111.Sh BUGS
112EATA adapters other than listed may function correctly with the
113.Nm
114driver, however a definitive list is not available.
115.Pp
116Older firmware may prove problematic.  It is recommended that the latest
117available firmware be used.  Contact DPT for a firmware update.
118.Pp
119Older boards that do not support scatter-gather I/O or DMA are not supported.
120.Pp
121The number of queued commands available on ISA devices is clamped.
122.Pp
123ECC formatted disk and arrays (i.e. with a sector size of 528 bytes) do not
124work correctly with the PM2041 and certain firmware revisions of the PM3334.
125