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29.Dd $Mdocdate: August 14 2012 $
30.Dt ATAPISCSI 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm atapiscsi
34.Nd ATAPI<->SCSI adapter
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.Cd "atapiscsi* at wdc? flags 0x0000"
37.Cd "atapiscsi* at pciide? flags 0x0000"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver supports ATAPI (also called IDE) devices such as CD-ROMs, ZIP
42drives, LS-120 floppy drives, and tape drives.
43All ATAPI devices talk a subset of the SCSI protocol.
44.Pp
45The
46.Nm
47driver acts like a SCSI adapter.
48Thus, the ATAPI devices connected to the system will appear as SCSI devices.
49ATAPI CD-ROMs will appear as
50.Xr cd 4
51devices, ATAPI tape drives as
52.Xr st 4
53devices, and ATAPI floppies as
54.Xr sd 4
55devices.
56.Pp
57For performance reasons, one should avoid putting an ATAPI device and
58a hard disk on the same cable.
59The driver does not support bus release and, even if it did, many ATAPI
60devices do not support it.
61There is only one command outstanding on a cable at a time.
62For example, if a hard disk and a CD drive are placed on the same cable,
63the hard disk requests may get queued behind slower CD operations.
64.Pp
65The
66.Cm flags
67are used only with controllers that support DMA operations and
68mode settings (like some
69.Xr pciide 4
70controllers).
71The lowest order (rightmost) nibble of the
72.Cm flags
73define the PIO mode to use.
74The next four bits indicate the DMA mode and the third nibble the UltraDMA
75mode.
76.Pp
77For each set of four bits, the 3 lower bits define the mode to use
78and the last bit must be set to 1 for this setting to be used.
79For DMA and UltraDMA, 0xf (1111) means
80.Dq disable .
81For example, a
82.Cm flags
83value of 0x0fac (1111 1010 1100)
84means
85.Do
86use PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, disable UltraDMA
87.Dc .
88The special setting 0x0000 means
89.Dq use whatever the drive claims to support .
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Xr cd 4 ,
92.Xr intro 4 ,
93.Xr pciide 4 ,
94.Xr scsi 4 ,
95.Xr sd 4 ,
96.Xr st 4 ,
97.Xr wdc 4
98.Sh BUGS
99Slow devices, like tape drives, could do a better job of sharing the channel.
100For now, we recommend you put the tape device on its own channel.
101