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- Lines: 77
- Date:
Thu Jul 11 08:19:59 1996
- Orig file:
v2.0.5/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx
- Orig date:
Wed Jul 10 15:20:26 1996
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.0.5/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@
Wolfgang Stanglmeier <wolf@cologne.de>
Stefan Esser <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de>
-You can find technical informations about the NCR 8xx family in the PCI-HOWTO
+You can find technical information about the NCR 8xx family in the PCI-HOWTO
written by Michael Will and in the SCSI-HOWTO written by Drew Eckhardt.
-Informations about new chips is available at SYMBIOS web server:
+Information about new chips is available at SYMBIOS web server:
http://www.symbios.com
This short documentation only describes the features of the NCR53C8XX driver,
@@ -153,16 +153,16 @@
However, if the driver has been made as module, the number of the host is
incremented each time the driver is loaded.
-In order to display profiling informations, just enter:
+In order to display profiling information, just enter:
cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0
and you will get something like the following text:
-------------------------------------------------------
-General informations:
+General information:
Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x2
IO port address 0x6000, IRQ number 10
Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0x282c000
-Profiling informations:
+Profiling information:
num_trans = 18014
num_kbytes = 671314
num_disc = 25763
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@
ms_post = 1320
-------------------------------------------------------
-General informations are easy to understand. The device id and the
-revision id identify the scsi chip as follow:
+General information is easy to understand. The device id and the
+revision id identify the scsi chip as follows:
Chip Device id Revision Id
---- --------- -----------
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
825A 0x3 >= 0x10
875 0xf
-The profiling informations are updated upon completion of scsi commands.
+The profiling information is updated upon completion of scsi commands.
The data structure is allocated and zeroed when the host adapter is
attached. So, if the driver is a module, the profile counters are cleared each
time the driver is loaded.
@@ -316,10 +316,10 @@
result: print sense data on CHECK CONDITION status
scatter: print infos about the scatter process
scripts: print infos about the script binding process
- tiny: print minimal debugging informations
- timing: print timing informations of the ncr chip.
- nego: print informations about scsi negotiations
- phase: print informations on script interruptions
+ tiny: print minimal debugging information
+ timing: print timing information of the ncr chip.
+ nego: print information about scsi negotiations
+ phase: print information on script interruptions
8.6 Clear profile counters
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@
If defined, scsi parity checking is disabled.
SCSI_NCR_PROFILE (default: defined)
- If defined, profile informations are gathered
+ If defined, profile information are gathered
SCSI_NCR_MAX_SCATTER (default: 128)
Scatter list size of the driver ccb.
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