ncv (4)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/ncv.4freebsd".)

NAME

ncv - NCR 53C500 based SCSI host adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device scbus device ncv

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf5:

ncv_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The ifconfig driver provides access to the SCSI bus connected to an NCR 53C500 based PC-Card SCSI host adapter or an Adaptec AHA-2920 on the PCI bus.

HARDWARE

The following devices are currently supported by the ifconfig driver:

• I-O DATA PCSC-DV
• KME KXLC002 (TAXAN ICD-400PN, etc.), KXLC004, and UJDCD450
• Macnica Miracle SCSI-II mPS110
• Media Intelligent MSC-110, MSC-200
• NEC PC-9801N-J03R
• New Media Corporation BASICS SCSI
• Qlogic Fast SCSI
• RATOC REX-9530, REX-5572 (SCSI only)

DIAGNOSTICS

The following error messages are sometimes returned:

"SCSI BUS RESET failed"

Usually returned when a failure occurs during the bus reset.

"CMD_NOP failed"

No operation or the operation has failed.

"CMD_NOP|CMD_DMA"

A failure occurred during the DMA read/write operations.

The ifconfig driver should return Bq Er ENODEV when any of the previously noted failures occur.

SEE ALSO

cardbus(4), cd(4), da(4), pccard(4), sa(4), scsi(4)

HISTORY

The ifconfig device driver has been developed for Nx Ns / Ns Tn pc98 and ported to Fx . The ifconfig driver first appeared in Fx 2.2 with PAO and merged in Fx 4.2 .

AUTHORS

An -nosplit The ifconfig driver was written by An Naofumi Honda . This manual page was written by An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org and An Noriaki Mitsunaga Aq non@FreeBSD.org .