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CCDISK.EXE COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi CCDISK.EXE
NAME
ccdisk.exe - DOS reentrant SCSI disk driver
SYNOPSIS
device=ccdisk.exe [takeover] [concurrency=max-concurrency]
[irq_array=array-of-irqs]
ccdisk VECTOR [interrupt-number interrupt-id]
COMMAND LINE RULES
Command line has following rules
- Operands consist of options and terminating ';' (semi-
colon). Except for ';' , the order is unimportant.
- The character ';' (semicolon) terminates command line.
Operands after the character are ignored.
- All operands are case sensitive, and generally must be
in lower case. In this version VECTOR is the only
upper case operand. On config.sys line, operands are
converted to lower case and then interpreted.
- The character '/' can be placed anywhere ' ' (the white
space) can be placed.
- Alphabetic part of an option can be abbreviated down to
one character, if there is no ambiguities. For example
the delete option has the syntax [d[e[l[e[t[e]]]]]].
DESCRIPTION
Ccdisk.exe is a device driver loaded from config.sys line
that handles SCSI disks not using BIOS int13 interrupts to
communicate with. Instead, ccdisk.exe uses ASPI (Advanced
SCSI Programming Interface) for its communications with SCSI
disks.
It must be loaded after ASPI and before concache.exe.
If concache.exe is not loaded, ccdisk.exe works exactly like
any other block device driver that handles SCSI disks. It
accepts driver requests from DOS serially and performs each
of the requests to the completion.
If concache.exe is loaded, concache.exe intercepts all DOS
requests to ccdisk.exe and routes the requests to ccdisk.exe
described as above if necessary. If the request is gener-
ated by concache.exe then it directly far calls ccdisk.exe
function entry that performs io asynchronously.
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Option concurrency= specifies the maximum number of devices
to work concurrent. If this option is not specified, the
maximum concurrency is set to the number of detected units.
This concurrency value is retrieved by concache.exe and con-
cache.exe tries to set aside stack area (about 400 - 500
bytes per concurrency) and io buffer area (minimum 512
bytes. See concache.txt for details.) for each device to
let them work concurrently. If conventional memory or upper
memory block is precious, use rather conservative concur-
rency= value.
ASPI manager may also limit the concurrency level for its
own buffer management policy. In this case setting concur-
rency= option larger than the limit is useless. Check this
on accompanying manual for the value.
Option takeover tells ccdisk.exe to take over SCSI disk
operations from DOS io.sys device driver which use int13
method, and let concache.exe perform the disk operations
concurrently with other devices and user/DOS programs. The
devices remain nominated as io.sys drives but driven by
ccdisk.exe through SCSI manager, dictated by concache.exe.
Note SCSI manager must be loaded to use takeover option even
if the board is configured to use BIOS. For SCSI disks not
under BIOS, presence or absence of the option is irrelevant.
Also note the option takes effect only with concache.exe
loaded. In general, it is hard to find the reason not to
use this option.
If SCSI disks are configured to use BIOS interface, since
BIOS notifies device interrupt conditions via (also BIOS)
int159[01]00 interrupts to tell only device types, it is
impossible to handle them concurrently, nor discriminate
them from non-SCSI devices. To configure SCSI disks not to
use BIOS, see respective SCSI board manufacturer's manuals.
However, if only one SCSI disk unit exists and no other type
disks are configured, using ccdisk.exe is not very strongly
advantageous, since in this case BIOS int159[01]00 inter-
rupts definitely designate the unit.
Option irq_array= specifies irqs used for each host adapter
in hexadecimal array. Specifying irqs 0 (timer), 1 (key-
board), 6 (floppy), 8 (real time clock), 9 (redirected
interrupts), and 0xe (IDE type hard disk) are silently
ignored. The array is composed of concatenated hexadecimal
value of irq numbers. For example, irq_array=b0c means host
adapter 0 uses irq 11, adapter 1 uses none, and adapter 2
uses irq 12. If this option is unspecified, then irq range
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8 - 15 is searched and those not pointing into ROM segment
0xf000 space are considered candidate SCSI irqs.
Note.
In most cases default SCSI irq detection should work.
However, not all BIOS use segment 0xf000, the guess is
easily defeated by the other programs, "stacks=" state-
ment in config.sys hides ROM segment addresses, and
high latency interrupts may not want to be involved in
delays concache.exe switchings cause.
For VECTOR argument, see the corresponding subsection in
concache.txt.
SEE ALSO
concache.txt, floppies.txt, eqanda.txt, overview.txt,
respective SCSI board manufacturer's manual.
FEATURES
Current implementation has following restrictions
- Physical block size must be 512 bytes, and logical
block size (given by BIOS parameter block) must be
either 512, 1024, or 2048 bytes.
- Only DOS compatible partitions, type 1, 4, 5, 6 are
recognized.
- No removable media, such as magneto-optical, are han-
dled.
- Ioctl are not implemented.
Irqs should have been retrievable via ASPI.
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