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ATADRVR HISTORY.TXT FILE
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by Hale Landis
Here is a brief list of the new and changed things in the last
few versions of ATADRVR.
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ATADRVR CHANGE LIST
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Version 14F
New data transfer modes added for PCMCIA Memory mode. See the
pio_memory_dt_opt variable in ATAIO.H. Also see the ATADRVR.UG
documentation file.
Version 14E
Many changes made in ATAIOTRC.C to prepare for 48-LBA support.
Version 14D
Minor change to the trace message text formatting.
Version 14B and 14C
BUG: A bug in the pio_rep_outbyte() function (in ATAIOPIO.C)
was fixed.
Version 14A
See versions 13A - 13P.
Version 13P
NEW: 8-bit PIO data transfers are now supported. The
pio_use_dword variable has been replaced by the pio_xfer_width
variable. See the ATADRVR.UG file!
Version 13N, 13O and 13P
No changes, see INITPCC below.
Version 13M
- during ATAPI PIO data transfer commands the command
packet is no longer counted as a DRQ packet. See
reg_cmd_info.drqPackets.
- ATAPI PACKET commands in DMA are now allowed to transfer up
to 131072 bytes.
- Checking for protocol errors immediately after the PACKET
(A0H) command is written to the Command register has been
changed. This change may cause some commands to ATAPI
devices to fail with an error. See reg_atapi_delay_flag.
Version 13L
The EXAMPLE1.C and EXAMPLE2.C programs have been updated to
show how the PCI DMA functions of ATADRVR are used.
Version 13K
- text added to the low level trace to show the value of DEV
and LBA bits when the Drive/Head register is written.
- text added to the low level trace to show the value of the
nIEN bit when the Device Control register is written.
Version 13J
The number of PIO DRQ packets is now counted during both ATA
and ATAPI PIO data transfer commands. See
reg_cmd_info.drqPackets.
Version 13I
A minor change was made to the text of one of the protocol
error message lines.
Version 13H
The reg_packet() will now transfer more than 64K bytes for a
packet command. See the variable reg_atapi_max_bytes.
The standard error message now includes a description of the
protocol error bits.
Version 13G
The function pio_rep_outdword() was using the REP OUTSW
instruction. The correct instruction is REP OUTSD. This bug
was fixed.
Version 13F
The following new variables where added so that the
caller of reg_packet() can control the values placed into the
Feature, Sector Count, Sector Number and Device/Head
registers:
reg_atapi_reg_fr
reg_atapi_reg_sc
reg_atapi_reg_sn
reg_atapi_reg_dh (only bits 3,2,1,0 are used)
See the ATADRVR.UG file.
Version 13E
ATAIOPCI.C was not setting all of the "reserved" bits in a PRD
entry to zero. This has been fixed.
Version 13D
- The documentation file ATADRVR.UG is new!
- PCI Bus Mastering DMA support has been added
(see source file ATAIOPCI.C)!
- The documentation files PIO.UG and DMA.UG have
been updated!
- The file ATAIODMA.C where renamed to ATAIOISA.C
(the ISA DMA function names are not changed).
- The make (*.MAK) files where updated.
Version 13C
- The FLUSH CACHE command was added to ATAIO.H and to
ATAIOTRC.C.
- The CFA commands were addded to ATAIO.H and to
ATAIOTRC.C.
Version 13B
- The ATA/ATAPI-4 has a new requirement that the host wait
following the transfer of last word of data in a PIO data
block before checking the status register. This has been done
by calling the DELAY400NS macro at the appropriate times in
all the ATA and ATAPI command protocols.
- The slow data transfer option was added. This option was
added to support several test programs (such as ATACT).
Version 13A
This will look like a major change to the code but the actual
changes are few:
- all comments were converted to "//" style.
- support for ISA bus Mulitword DMA is new. See new module
ataiodma.c. Additions were made to the header files
to support this. See the plain ASCII text file DMA.UG
which is also new with this version of ATADRVR.
- a few common functions were moved from ataioreg.c to a
new source module named ataiosub.c. The functions are
used by both ataioreg.c and ataiodma.c. Also see ataiopd.h.
- a "return ;" was changed to a "return NULL;" in ataiotrc.c
at the beginning of trc_err_dump2().
- The index bit (in the status register) is ignored in the
low level trace. This keeps the low level trace from filling
up with status polling entries with the index bit going on
and off. This is actually a bug fix since the code should
have worked this way all along, however, it has been years
since I've seen a drive that actually did anything with
this bit in the status register so I did not notice the
bug in the low level trace code (until I was testing with
an old drive).
- The definition of CB_ER_MCR in ATAIO.H was fixed -- it
has been wrong for several years -- I've never had to
use this bit of the ATA Error register so I never noticed
it was defined as the wrong bit!
Version 12H
No changes to the driver code -- the only change was to the
example programs.
Version 12G
A call to reg_atapi_delay() was added before the final status
check in reg_pio_data_in() because some ATAPI devices don't
handle status correctly at the end of the Identify Device
Packet (A1H) command.
Version 12F
Fixed a hang (endless looping) in reg_packet() if the ATAPI
device attempted to transfer a data packet of zero length.
This added a new error/return code value (60) to
reg_packet().
Added code to support the Device Reset command in
reg_non_data(). This "command" should not generate
an interrupt so reg_non_data() must poll for BSY=0.
Version 12E
Forced ns (the number of sectors actually transferred) to 1
for some commands (such as the Identify commands and R/W
Buffer).
Version 12D
Forced multiCnt to be 1 for PIO In/Out commands other than
Read/Write Mulitple.
Very minor changes, mostly to comments and trace message text.
Version 12C
In ATAIOTRC, the command history trace functions now trace the
ATAPI CDB when a Packet command is executed.
In ATAIOTRC, there are new functions trc_err_dump1() and
trc_err_dump2() that produce a standard I/O command error
message.
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EXAMPLE1 CHANGE LIST
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Here is a brief list of the new and changed things in the last
few versions of the EXAMPLE1 program:
Version 14A through 14E
No changes.
Versions 13B through 13P
No changes.
Version 13A
All comments were converted to "//" style.
Examples of ISA Multiword DMA where added. See plain ASCII
text file DMA.UG which is also new with this version of
ATADRVR.
Version 12H
An unterminated comment was fixed at about line 150.
Version 12G
The program now accepts a command line parameter to specify
the device to run on: P0, P1, S0 or S1.
Some messages where added to show the program's progress.
Version 12D, 12E and 12F
No changes.
Version 12C
EXAMPLE.C has been rename to EXAMPLE1.C. Calls to
trc_err_dump?(), trc_cht_dump?() and trc_llt_dump?() have been
included to show how to retrieve and display the standard I/O
error and trace messages.
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EXAMPLE2 CHANGE LIST
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Here is a brief list of the new and changed things in the last
few versions of the EXAMPLE2 program:
Version 14A through 14E
No changes.
Versions 13B through 13P
No changes.
Version 13A
All comments were converted to "//" style.
Examples of ISA Multiword DMA where added. See plain ASCII
text file DMA.UG which is also new with this version of
ATADRVR.
Version 12H
An unterminated comment was fixed at about line 150.
Version 12G
The program now accepts a command line parameter to specify
the device to run on: P0, P1, S0 or S1.
Some messages where added to show the program's progress.
Version 12E and 12F
No changes.
Version 12D
The display of the CD-ROM TOC data has been fixed.
Version 12C
EXAMPLE2.C is new and shows how to use the cmd_packet()
function to execute various ATAPI CD-ROM commands. Calls to
trc_err_dump?(), trc_cht_dump?() and trc_llt_dump?() have been
included to show how to retrieve and display the standard I/O
error and trace messages.
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INITPCC CHANGE LIST
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Here is a brief list of the new and changed things in the last
few versions of the INITPCC program:
Version 14A through 14E
No changes.
Version 13P
Debug messages improved.
Version 13O
BUG: If SYSMEM= follows PCCMODE= on the command line then
PCCMODE=MEMORY is forced. This bug was fixed.
Version 13N
NEW: Command line options DUMPCIS, DUMPREGS and SYSMEM. See
the INITPCC.UG documentation file.
Versions 13F through 13M
No changes.
Version 13E
A check added to make sure a PCIC is not asked to create a
duplicate primary or secondary ATA host adapter in the system.
Versions 13B, 13C, 13D
No changes.
Version 13A
INITPCC is a new program starting with Version 13A of ATADRVR.
Note that the source code for INITPCC is not available at this
time.
QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS?
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Send your question(s) or problem description(s) to Hale Landis
via email at this address:
hlandis@ata-atapi.com
Visit Hale's web site:
www.ata-atapi.com
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