GTSC(4)

NAME
gtsc - GVP low level SCSI interface

SYNOPSIS
gtsc0 at gvpbus0

DESCRIPTION
The Amiga architecture uses a common machine independent scsi sub-system provided in the kernel source. The machine independent drivers that use this code access the hardware through a common interface. (see scsibus(4)) This common interface interacts with a machine dependent interface, such as gtsc, which then handles the hardware specific issues.

The gtsc interface handles things such as DMA and interrupts as well as actually sending commands, negotiating synchronous or asynchronous transfers and handling disconnect/reconnect of SCSI targets. The hardware that gtsc uses is based on the WD33c93 SCSI chip.

DIAGNOSTICS

sbicwait TIMEO @%d with asr=x%x csr=x%x The 33c93 code (sbic) has been waiting too long for a SCSI chip operation to complete. %d is the line in the source file amiga/dev/sbic.c at which the SCSI chip timed-out. Asr and csr are status registers withing the SCSI chip.

gtsc%d: abort %s: csr = 0x%02x, asr = 0x%02x A SCSI operation %s was aborted due to an error.

gtsc%d: csr == 0x%02i A error has occured within the SCSI chip code.

gtsc%d: unexpected phase %d in icmd from %d The target described by ‘from %d’ has taken the SCSI bus into a phase which is not expected durring polled IO.

gtsc%d: unexpected phase %d in icmd from %d The target described by ‘from %d’ has taken the SCSI bus into a phase which is not expected durring DMA IO setup.

SEE ALSO
scsibus(4)

HISTORY
The gtsc interface first appeared in NetBSD 1.0