Emerson MVME147 manual Initiator Role Custom Packet

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Initiator Role Custom Packet

If you suspect data integrity error, you can set up the SCSI script to execute the data phase and then disconnect from the bus (script code 0x2c) or just return as an intermediate return without disconnect from the bus (script code 0x28). Firmware executes the data phase and then returns the firmware parity error status, if any, command packet, and command table back to you.

You can examine the data as well as the firmware status to decide what SCSI status should be returned to initiator. After the status is determined, a new TARGET sequence command packet needs to be sent to firmware with status, message (for message-in phase), and proper scripts to complete the SCSI bus command.

For the previous disk read example, the script would be:

$14,$04,$0C,$10,$18,$00.

The above sequence of codes may be written anywhere in the MVME147- accessible space. It may even be ROMed. The script pointer in the custom SCSI packet is the address of the first entry of the script. In the example, it would point to the $14. Therefore, the message-out phase should always be the first phase in any initiator script.

2.COMMAND TABLE (384 bytes of RAM). The second data structure required by the SCSI firmware for the execution of a custom SCSI packet is a Command Table.

For unsupported controllers, the control of certain functions (parity checking, DMA, linked commands, SCSI rules, DMA scatter/gather, SYNC/ASYNC transfer) is dictated to the firmware through the status/flag byte of the Command Table.

The CDB is one of the pieces of the command table. The user of the initiator role custom SCSI packet loads the CDB to be passed to the SCSI target that is to be selected. The initiator role custom SCSI packet has a Command Table pointer which is the address of the first word of this data structure. Unlike the script, the Command Table must be in MVME147-accessible RAM because the firmware writes to portions of the table. All the user accessible pieces of the Command Table are shown in the following table.

Even Byte \

Odd Byte \

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