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37.Dd November 28, 1999
38.Os
39.Dt WDSC 4 mvme68k
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm wdsc
42.Nd Western Digital WD33c93 SCSI Bus Interface Controller
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "wdsc0 at pcc? ipl 2"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides an abstraction layer between the SCSI hardware
49fitted to the
50.Tn Motorola
51MVME147 single board computer (WD33C93), and the machine
52independent SCSI drivers described in
53.Xr scsibus 4 .
54.Pp
55In addition to sending the required SCSI commands to
56target devices on the SCSI bus, the
57.Nm
58driver deals with DMA, device interrupts, sync/async negotiation
59and target disconnects/reconnects.
60.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
61Too many to mention.
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr pcc 4 ,
64.Xr scsibus 4
65.Sh BUGS
66Negotiation of Synchronous SCSI data transfers has been
67deliberately disabled in the MVME147's
68.Nm
69driver as it has proved extremely difficult to make it
70work reliably in this mode.
71.Pp
72The
73.Nm
74driver does not respond well to exceptional conditions
75caused by poor SCSI cabling and/or termination. In those
76instances the machine is likely to require a hard reset
77to recover.
78.Pp
79The current
80.Nm
81driver should be blown away and replaced with a machine independent
82version.
83