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| 2 | eComStation AHCI Driver
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| 3 | ====================================================================
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| 4 |
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| 5 |
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| 6 | Introduction
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| 7 | ============
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| 8 |
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| 9 | OS2AHCI is an AHCI driver for eComStation. It supports both ATA and
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| 10 | ATAPI devices in a single driver. An ATAPI/CDROM filter driver is
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| 11 | only required if you want to read/write CD-DA (audio) format CDs.
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| 12 |
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| 13 |
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| 14 | Copyrights
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| 15 | ==========
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Copyright (c) 2011 thi.guten Software Development
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| 18 | Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Mensys B.V.
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| 19 | Copyright (c) 2013 David Azarewicz
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| 20 |
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| 21 | Authors: Christian Mueller, Markus Thielen
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| 22 |
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| 23 | Parts copied from/inspired by the Linux AHCI driver;
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| 24 | those parts are (c) Linux AHCI/ATA maintainers
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| 25 |
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| 26 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 27 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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| 28 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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| 29 | (at your option) any later version.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 32 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 33 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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| 34 | GNU General Public License for more details.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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| 37 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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| 38 | Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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| 39 | MA 02111-1307 USA
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| 40 |
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| 41 |
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| 42 | Licensing and Source Code
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| 43 | =========================
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| 44 |
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| 45 | The *binary* delivery of OS2AHCI.ADD as obtained from the BetaZone,
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| 46 | or as part of packaged eComStation releases, is licensed to run with
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| 47 | eComStation only.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | The source code can be retrieved from http://svn.ecomstation.nl;
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| 50 | in compliance to the GNU General Public License, the source code
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| 51 | can of course be modified/compiled to run on other products as long
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| 52 | as modifications will also be published as outlined in the GNU GPL2.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Please note that builds other than the official binary delivered as
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| 55 | part of eComStation releases or downloaded from the BetaZone are
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| 56 | not officially supported.
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| 57 |
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| 58 |
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| 59 | Building The Driver
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| 60 | -------------------
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| 61 |
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| 62 | The toolchain required for compilation consists of:
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| 63 |
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| 64 | - The MiniDDK or an updated DDK
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| 65 | - Open Watcom version 1.9 or later
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Define DDK and WATCOM in the environment.
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| 68 | Use "wmake" or "wmake -a" to build the driver. See _build.cmd.
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| 69 |
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| 70 | Installation
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| 71 | ============
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| 72 |
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| 73 | - Run the included update.cmd,
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| 74 | or copy the driver file, OS2AHCI.ADD, to \OS2\BOOT on your boot disk.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | - Add the following line to CONFIG.SYS:
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| 77 | BASEDEV=OS2AHCI.ADD
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| 78 |
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| 79 |
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| 80 | Reporting Problems
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| 81 | ==================
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| 82 |
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| 83 | If you have problems with this driver, please read the Troubleshooting
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| 84 | page at:
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| 85 |
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| 86 | http://svn.ecomstation.nl/ahci/wiki/Troubleshooting
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| 87 |
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| 88 | You can open a ticket at:
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| 89 | http://svn.ecomstation.nl/ahci
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| 90 |
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| 91 |
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| 92 | Driver Command Line Options
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| 93 | ===========================
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| 94 |
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| 95 | Global Options
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| 96 |
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| 97 | Option Description
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| 98 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 99 | /b:<baud> Initialize the COM port to the specified baud rate. Allowable
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| 100 | baud values are: 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200,
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| 101 | 38400, 57600, and 115200. /b has no effect if /c is not also
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| 102 | specified. If /b is not specified, the COM port is not
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| 103 | initialized. For example, if you are using the kernel debugger,
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| 104 | the kernel debugger initializes the COM port so you should not
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| 105 | use this switch.
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| 106 |
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| 107 | /c:<n> Set debug COM port base address. Values for n can be:
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| 108 | 1 = COM1
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| 109 | 2 = COM2
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| 110 | a hex value (COM port base address) COM1=3f8, COM2=2f8
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| 111 | The default is 0. If set to 0 then no output goes to the COM port.
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| 112 |
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| 113 | /d[:n] Debug output to COM port/trace buffer. Values for n can be:
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| 114 | 1 = requests
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| 115 | 2 = detailed
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| 116 | 3 = verbose, including MMIO operations
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| 117 | If :n is not specified the debug level is incremented for
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| 118 | each /d specified.
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| 119 |
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| 120 | /w Allows the trace buffer to wrap when full.
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| 121 |
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| 122 | /v[:n] Display informational messages during boot. Values for n can be:
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| 123 | 1 = Display sign on banner
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| 124 | 2 = Display adapter information
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| 125 | If :n is not specified the verbosity level is incremented for
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| 126 | each /v specified.
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| 127 |
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| 128 | /g:<vendor>:<device> Add generic PCI ID to list of supported AHCI adapters
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| 129 | (e.g. /g:8086:2829)
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| 130 |
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| 131 | /t Perform thorough PCI ID scan; default = on, can be
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| 132 | turned off with /!t to perform only a PCI class scan
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| 133 |
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| 134 | /f Force the use of the HW write cache when using NCQ
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| 135 | commands; see "Native Command Queuing" below for
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| 136 | further explanation (default = off)
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| 137 |
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| 138 | /r Reset ports during initialization (default = on)
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| 139 | Can be turned off with /!r, however, when the
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| 140 | [Intel] AHCI controller was found to be
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| 141 | initialized by the BIOS in SATA mode, ports will
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| 142 | always be reset even when /!r was specified
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| 143 |
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| 144 | /a:n Set adapter to n for adapter-specific options
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| 145 | (default = -1, all adapters)
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| 146 |
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| 147 | /p:n Set port to n for port-specific options
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| 148 | (default = -1, all ports)
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| 149 |
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| 150 | /i Ignore current adapter if no port has been specified.
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| 151 | Otherwise, ignore the current port on the current adapter.
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| 152 |
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| 153 | Port-specific Options
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| 154 |
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| 155 | Option Description
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| 156 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 157 | /s Enable SCSI emulation for ATAPI units (default = on)
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| 158 | SCSI emulation is required for tools like cdrecord.
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| 159 |
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| 160 | /n Enable NCQ (Native Command Queuing) for hard disks
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| 161 | (default = off)
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| 162 |
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| 163 | /ls Set link speed (default = 0):
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| 164 | 0 = maximum,
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| 165 | 1 = limit to generation 1
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| 166 | 2 = limit to generation 2
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| 167 | 3 = limit to generation 3
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| 168 |
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| 169 | /lp Set link power management (default = 0):
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| 170 | 0 = full power management,
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| 171 | 1 = transitions to "partial slumber state" disabled,
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| 172 | 2 = transitions to "slumber state" disabled,
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| 173 | 3 = transitions to both partial and slumber states disabled
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| 174 |
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| 175 | /4 Force track size to be 56 sectors regardless of the
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| 176 | reported disk geometry to optimize partition boundaries
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| 177 | for hard disks with 4096 byte sectors.
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| 178 |
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| 179 | Port-specific options depend on the currently active adapter
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| 180 | and port selector (/a and /p). Those selectors are -1 per default
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| 181 | which means "all" adapters/ports. The scope can be reduced by limiting
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| 182 | it to an adapter (/a) or an adapter and a port (/a and /p). The scope
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| 183 | can be reset by setting the corresponding option back to -1.
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| 184 |
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| 185 | For example:
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| 186 |
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| 187 | BASEDEV=OS2AHCI.ADD /n /a:0 /p:5 /!n /a:1 /p:-1 /!n
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| 188 |
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| 189 | This has the following effect:
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| 190 |
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| 191 | - Enable NCQ for all hard disks
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| 192 | - Disable NCQ for hard disk on adapter #0, port #5
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| 193 | - Disable NCQ for all hard disks on adapter #1
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| 194 |
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| 195 |
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| 196 | Native Command Queuing
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| 197 | ======================
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| 198 |
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| 199 | Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is a feature which allows sending multiple I/O
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| 200 | requests to hard disks before waiting for any of the requests to complete,
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| 201 | much like Tagged Command Queuing for SCSI devices. This allows the disks
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| 202 | to reorder I/O requests to minimize head movements, resulting in improved
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| 203 | performance when executing random I/Os. In practice, this will be most
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| 204 | noticable when multiple programs request I/O services to different parts
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| 205 | of the disk -- a single program typically won't queue up I/O's but instead
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| 206 | will wait for each I/O to complete (with the exception of programs like
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| 207 | database servers).
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| 208 |
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| 209 | While we believe NCQ will work with the majority of controllers and hard
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| 210 | disks, it's currently turned off by default until we have more feedback
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| 211 | from eComStation users. In order to turn on NCQ, just add the command line
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| 212 | option "/n" to OS2AHCI.ADD.
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| 213 |
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| 214 | NCQ and HW Caches
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| 215 | -----------------
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| 216 |
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| 217 | In NCQ mode, OS2AHCI supports a request flag which allows upstream code
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| 218 | (e.g. file systems) to force writes to go directly to the disk instead
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| 219 | of being buffered in the HW disk cache. However, at least JFS doesn't
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| 220 | support this flag properly which effectively disables the HW disk cache
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| 221 | for write operations across the board, resulting in a substantial
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| 222 | performance loss. In order to prevent OS2AHCI from disabling the HW
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| 223 | cache when so requested by upstream code, please use the command line
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| 224 | option "/f".
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| 225 |
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| 226 | This may, of course, result in data loss in case of power failures but
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| 227 | apparently this was the situation with previous IDE drivers as well thus
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| 228 | shouldn't make much difference in the field. The JFS code also seems to
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| 229 | imply that this flag has never been widely supported by [IDE] drivers;
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| 230 | otherwise, the JFS developers should have stumbled over the performance
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| 231 | loss a long time ago and fixed the code.
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| 232 |
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| 233 | NOTES:
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| 234 |
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| 235 | - Without NCQ, OS2AHCI behaves like former IDE drivers, i.e. the HW
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| 236 | cache will always be enabled (on modern disks).
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| 237 |
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| 238 | - When suspending, rebooting or shutting down, OS2AHCI always flushes
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| 239 | the HW disk cache regardless of the "/f" or "/n" command line options.
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| 240 |
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| 241 |
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| 242 | Interoperability With IDE Drivers
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| 243 | =================================
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| 244 |
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| 245 | There are three kinds of IDE/ATA/SATA controllers:
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| 246 |
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| 247 | 1. Legacy controllers (IDE or SATA) without AHCI support
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| 248 | This kind of controller will only be recognized by IDE drivers
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| 249 | (IBM1S506.ADD or DANIS506.ADD).
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| 250 |
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| 251 | 2. AHCI-capable controllers which supports IDE/SATA legacy interfaces
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| 252 | This kind of controller will work with IDE or AHCI drivers and it's
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| 253 | up to the user to decide which driver to use.
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| 254 |
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| 255 | 3. AHCI-only controllers
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| 256 | This kind of controller will only be recognized by OS2AHCI.
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| 257 |
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| 258 | If there's a mix of controllers of types 1 and 3, both an IDE and an AHCI
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| 259 | driver will be required.
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| 260 |
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| 261 | If type 2 controllers are involved, it's up to the user to decide which
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| 262 | driver to use. Both DANIS506.ADD and OS2AHCI.ADD will verify whether another
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| 263 | driver has already allocated the corresponding adapter, thus the only
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| 264 | decision to take for mixed configurations is whether type-2 controllers
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| 265 | should be handled by DANIS506.ADD or OS2AHCI.ADD and this can be done by
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| 266 | having the desired driver's BASEDEV statement coming first in CONFIG.SYS.
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| 267 |
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| 268 | NOTE: Older versions of DANIS506.ADD did not verify whether the resources
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| 269 | of a particular adapter were already allocated by another driver.
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| 270 | DANIS506.ADD 1.8.8 or later is required for this to work.
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| 271 |
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| 272 | When using earlier versions of DANI1S506.ADD, the options "/A:x /I"
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| 273 | will be required to tell DANI1S506.ADD to ignore adapters to be
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| 274 | driven by OS2AHCI.ADD. The same applies to IBM1S506.ADD
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| 275 |
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| 276 | Mixed Controller Example
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| 277 | ------------------------
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| 278 |
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| 279 | Assume a DELL D630 or a Thinkpad T60. The hard disk is attached to the
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| 280 | SATA/AHCI controller of the ICH-7 hub while the CDROM is attached to the
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| 281 | legacy PATA IDE controller. This allows two different configurations:
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| 282 |
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| 283 | 1. Drive HDD and CDROM via DANIS506.ADD
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| 284 | 2. Drive HDD via OS2AHCI.ADD and CDROM via DANI1S506.ADD
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| 285 |
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| 286 | OS2AHCI.ADD can't drive the CDROM because it's attached to a legacy PATA
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| 287 | IDE controller which doesn't support AHCI.
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| 288 |
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| 289 | - If OS2AHCI.ADD comes first in CONFIG.SYS, it will take over the SATA/AHCI
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| 290 | controller and drive the HDD. DANIS506.ADD will take care of the PATA/IDE
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| 291 | controller for the CDROM.
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| 292 | - If DANIS506.ADD comes first in CONFIG.SYS, it will take over both the
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| 293 | SATA/AHCI and the PATA/IDE controller and OS2AHCI.ADD will silently exit.
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| 294 |
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| 295 | Advantages of AHCI
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| 296 | ------------------
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| 297 |
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| 298 | The interfaces provided by the various [Intel] controllers could be
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| 299 | summarized like this (the term ATA as driver interface being a bit of our
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| 300 | own invention):
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| 301 |
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| 302 | - Intel PIIX: IDE (I/O registers) and ATA (taskfile)
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| 303 | - Intel ICH6: IDE (I/O registers), ATA (taskfile) and SATA
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| 304 | (FIS, vendor-specific)
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| 305 | - Intel ICH7: IDE (I/O registers), ATA (taskfile), SATA
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| 306 | (FIS, vendor-specific) and AHCI (FIS)
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| 307 | - Intel PCH: AHCI (FIS)
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| 308 |
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| 309 | Taskfiles are regions in memory with ATA commands which the IDE/ATA
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| 310 | controller can read and process autonomously. FIS (Frame Information
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| 311 | Structures) are pretty much the same but they are specific to the SATA
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| 312 | communication protocol on the serial link. The most important FIS type
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| 313 | for AHCI drivers is the H2D (host to device) FIS which basically contains
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| 314 | the ATA command to be executed.
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| 315 |
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| 316 | The big advantage of AHCI controllers, apart from being vendor-neutral,
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| 317 | is that they take care of a lot of things which previous-generation
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| 318 | drivers like DANI1S506 would have to do step by step. For example, in
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| 319 | order to send an ATAPI command, DANIS506 would have to do the following:
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| 320 |
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| 321 | * Send ATA "PACKET" command to device (via IDE registers, ATA taskfiles
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| 322 | or SATA FIS)
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| 323 | * Wait until device signals via interrupt it's ready for the ATAPI command
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| 324 | * Send ATAPI command to device via PIO
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| 325 | * Wait until device signals via interrupt it's ready to transfer data
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| 326 | * Send/Receive any data that might come along with the ATAPI command via
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| 327 | PIO, or wait for DMA transfer to complete
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| 328 | * Wait until device signals via interrupt that command and data transfer
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| 329 | have completed
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| 330 |
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| 331 | For OS2AHCI, the same operation looks like this:
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| 332 |
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| 333 | * Fill in AHCI command header, FIS with ATA "PACKET" command and the ATAPI
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| 334 | command
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| 335 | * Tell port engine to process the command
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| 336 | * Wait until controller signals via interrupt that command and data
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| 337 | transfer have completed
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| 338 |
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| 339 | The AHCI controller automatically takes care of all underlying bits and
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| 340 | pieces. OS2AHCI doesn't even have to know whether a particular message is
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| 341 | sent via PIO or DMA because this is handled by the AHCI controller, too.
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| 342 | And the whole concept of PIO and DMA is only relevant between AHCI controller
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| 343 | and the device -- all transfers between OS2AHCI and the AHCI controller are
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| 344 | always done via DMA.
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| 345 |
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| 346 |
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| 347 | SMART Support
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| 348 | =============
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| 349 |
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| 350 | Starting with version 1.22, OS2AHCI supports the IOCTL interface required by
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| 351 | existing SMART monitoring tools. Since those tools are hard-coded to open
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| 352 | the character device named "IBMS506$", they will not work with OS2AHCI unless
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| 353 | modified to open the OS2AHCI$ device. Previous versions of OS2AHCI used to
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| 354 | register a duplicate device with the IBMS506$ name, however since that caused
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| 355 | so many unacceptable problems, that is no longer done. You must have a SMART
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| 356 | utility that opens the OS2AHCI$ device to access the AHCI driver.
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| 357 |
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| 358 | A patched version of the smartctl.exe program is included in the OS2AHCI
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| 359 | distribution. This patched version simply has the name "IBMS506$" changed
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| 360 | to "OS2AHCI$" and is otherwise identical. This patched program has been
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| 361 | renamed to smartahci.exe to distinguish it from the unpatched version.
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| 362 | The patched smartahci.exe program is provided AS-IS and is completely
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| 363 | UNSUPPORTED. Use of this program is at your own risk.
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| 364 |
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| 365 | NOTES:
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| 366 |
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| 367 | - The IOCTL interface for SMART is based on the idea of IDE controllers
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| 368 | with a master and a slave drive. OS2AHCI maps all devices (ATA or ATAPI)
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| 369 | sequentially to this pattern. If, for example, you have 4 hard disks and
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| 370 | one CDROM attached to a single controller on ports 1, 2, 5, 7, and 11,
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| 371 | SMART tools will see 3 controllers as follows:
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| 372 |
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| 373 | - controller 0, master: HD on port 1
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| 374 | - controller 0, slave: HD on port 2
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| 375 | - controller 1, master: HD on port 5
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| 376 | - controller 1, slave: HD on port 7
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| 377 | - controller 2, master: CDROM on port 11
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| 378 |
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| 379 | - The DSKSP_GEN_GET_COUNTERS interface is currently unsupported; calls to
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| 380 | the corresponding IOCTL will return 0 for all counters. SMART counters
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| 381 | are not affected by this limitation, i.e. SMART tools will be able to
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| 382 | report counters from the physical disk; this limitation only affects
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| 383 | the software counters maintained by ADD drivers which do support the
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| 384 | DSKSP_GEN_GET_COUNTERS IOCTL request.
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| 385 |
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| 386 |
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| 387 | Change Log
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| 388 | ==========
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| 389 |
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| 390 | v.1.32 09-Nov-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 391 | Fix for some hardware that reports incorrect status
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| 392 | Report real device in addition to fake SCSI device when SCSI emulation
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| 393 | is enabled.
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| 394 |
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| 395 | v.1.31 21-Aug-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 396 | Enhanced debug output.
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| 397 | Added code to check for bad geometries reported by the BIOS and fix them.
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| 398 | Fixed a PCI ID coding error that has been there since version 1.01.
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| 399 |
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| 400 | v.1.30 29-Jun-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 401 | Enhanced debug log output
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| 402 | Removed the IBMS506 header that was causing problems and shouldn't
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| 403 | be there anyway.
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| 404 | Fixed a defect in the SMART IOCtl.
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| 405 | Added ability to ignore individual ports.
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| 406 |
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| 407 | v.1.29 12-Jun-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 408 | Changed scsi emulation to be on by default.
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| 409 |
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| 410 | v.1.28 01-Jun-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 411 | Reworked trap dump kernel exit
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| 412 | Removed unused IDC entry point.
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| 413 | Reworked suspend/resume routines.
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| 414 | Implemented a temporary hack to make resume work reasonably well.
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| 415 | Suspend/resume is only supported on eCS systems with ACPI.
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| 416 | Suspend/resume is known to not work reliably and cannot be further
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| 417 | addressed in this driver.
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| 418 |
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| 419 | v.1.27 23-Apr-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 420 | Added LVM aware disk geometry reporting.
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| 421 | Begin to add disk information report - not finished yet.
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| 422 | Removed undocumented /q switch and made the driver quiet by default.
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| 423 | Debug output improvements.
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| 424 | Added /b switch for setting debug baud rate.
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| 425 | Fixed up time delay functions
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| 426 |
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| 427 | v.1.26 26-Mar-2013 - David Azarewicz
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| 428 | Fix spin-up / power-up issue on some hardware
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| 429 | Reorganized and improved debug output.
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| 430 |
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| 431 | v.1.26 21-Feb-2013 - rousseau
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| 432 | Virtual box fix
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| 433 | Some SMP fixes
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| 434 | Changed default for port reset to always
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| 435 |
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| 436 | v.1.25 02-Oct-2012 - markus.thi
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| 437 | Added support for trap dumps
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| 438 |
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| 439 | v.1.24 21-May-2012 - markus.thi
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| 440 | Fixed JFS long format hang (ticket 16)
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| 441 |
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| 442 | V.1.23 16-May-2012 - markus.thi
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| 443 | added IDC entry point to allow switching back to BIOS mode
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| 444 |
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| 445 | v.1.22 17-Oct-2011 - markus.thi
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| 446 | Added "IBMS506" header to accomodate broken SMART tools.
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