Ciprico Rimfire 3880 manual Select Time-out, Unit Flags

Chapter 7 Board-control Commands

Page 7 - 20 Unit Options (08H)

Note

If you set the TAG flag (explained below) the adapter will ignore the UNQ bit. Setting the TAG bit implies that you are using a SCSI-2 or SCSI-3 device. The UNQ bit is intended for SCSI-1 devices.

RCE Retry Command Errors - Allows you to select whether the adapter will respond to a device error with a retry of the failed command.

0 ⇒ Do not retry for device errors.

1 ⇒ Retry commands that error from the device.

RBE Retry Bus (SCSI) Errors - Enables retries in the event that a command fails.

0 ⇒ Do not perform Bus Error retries.

1 ⇒ Perform Bus Error retries.

Select Time-out

According to SCSI specifications, a target must respond to initiator selection by asserting the BSY signal in response to SEL, with its ID on the bus. With this field you can select the amount of time that the RF3880 adapter will wait for response before timing out with an error.

The select time-out period is specified in 1 millisecond increments. The default value is 250 (FAH), which selects a period of 250 milliseconds.

The longest time-out period possible is 392 milliseconds, selected with a value of 392 (188H) Any larger value placed in this field will still select 392 milliseconds.

A value of 0 will select the shortest time-out period possible, which is about 1 millisecond.

Unit Flags

The Unit Flags field of the Unit Options Parameter Block is where you can define command operation for the unit. With bit settings you can address the issues of: synchronous data transfer, tagged commands, and use of the ATN signal.

BITS

7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
0	TAG	0	0	WID	IAT	SYN	UNQ

Table 76: Unit Flags

UNQ Untagged Queuing - The SCSI-1 specification allows issue of multiple, simultaneous, commands to a target that has multiple LUN’s, one command per LUN. This bit allows you to select whether the RF3880 will queue commands to a target with multiple LUN’s.

0 ⇒ Send one command at a time to this target.

1 ⇒ Queue commands to this target; it has multiple LUN’s.

SYN Synchronous Negotiation - Either the initiator or the target may introduce negotiation for synchronous operation. How you set this bit determines whether the RF3880 adapter will attempt to negotiate with the device. (Even if you do not set this bit to allow negotiation, if the other device begins negotiation, the adapter will respond.)

0 ⇒ Do not initiate negotiation for synchronous data transfer.

1 ⇒ Negotiate for synchronous data transfer.

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