PREUMINARY
Chapter Five
Operating Registers
Bit 1 IARB (Immediate Arbitration)
Setting this bit will cause the SCSI core to
immediately begin arbitration once a BUS
FREE phase is. detected following an expected
SCSI disconnect. This bit is useful for multi-
threaded applications. The ARB 1-0 bits in
SCNTLO should be set for full arbitration and
selection before setting Immediate Arbitra-
tion.
Arbitration will be re-tried until won. At that
point, the 53C810 will hold BSY and SEL
asserted, and wait for a select or reselect
sequence to be requested. The Immediate
Arbitration bit will be reset automatically
when the selection or reselection sequence is
completed, or times out.
An unexpected disconnect condition will clear
!ARB without attempting arbitration. See the
SCSI Disconnect Unexpected bit (SCNTL2,
bit 7) for more information on expected
versus unexpected disconnects. .
An immediate arbitration sequence can be
aborted. First, the abort bit in the 1STAT
register should be set. Then one of two things
will eventually happen:
1) The Won Arbitration bit (SSTATO bit 2)
will be asserted. In this case, the Immedi-
ate Arbitration bit needs to be reset. This
will complete the abort sequence and
disconnect the 53 C81 0 from the SCSI
bus. If it is not acceptable to go to Bus
Free phase immediately following the
arbitration phase, a low level selection may
instead be performed.
2) The abort ~ complete because the
53 C81 0 loses arbitration. This can be
detected by the Immediate Arbitration bit
being deasserted. The Lost Arbitration bit
(SSTATO bit 3) should not be used to
detect this condition. No further action
needs to be taken in this case.
Bit 0 SST (Start SCSI Transfer)
This bit is automatically set during SCRIPTS
execution, and should not be used. It causes
the SCSI core to begin a SCSI transfer,.
including REQIACK handshaking. The
determination of whether the transfer is a
send or receive is made according to the value
written to the 110 bit in SOCL. This bit is
self-resetting. This bit should not be set for
low level operation.
CAUTION: Writing to thi~ register while not
connected may cause the loss of a selection!
reselection by resetting the Connected bit.
NCR 53C81 0 Data Manuar
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