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1
2The Amiga Buddha and Catweasel IDE Driver (part of ide.c) was written by
3Geert Uytterhoeven based on the following specifications:
4
5------------------------------------------------------------------------
6
7Register map of the Buddha IDE controller and the
8Buddha-part of the Catweasel Zorro-II version
9
10The Autoconfiguration has been implemented just as Commodore
11described  in  their  manuals, no tricks have been used (for
12example leaving some address lines out of the equations...).
13If you want to configure the board yourself (for example let
14a  Linux  kernel  configure the card), look at the Commodore
15Docs.  Reading the nibbles should give this information:
16
17Vendor number: 4626 ($1212)
18product number: 0 (42 for Catweasel Z-II)
19Serial number: 0
20Rom-vector: $1000
21
22The  card  should be a Z-II board, size 64K, not for freemem
23list, Rom-Vektor is valid, no second Autoconfig-board on the
24same card, no space preference, supports "Shutup_forever".
25
26Setting  the  base address should be done in two steps, just
27as  the Amiga Kickstart does:  The lower nibble of the 8-Bit
28address is written to $4a, then the whole Byte is written to
29$48, while it doesn't matter how often you're writing to $4a
30as  long as $48 is not touched.  After $48 has been written,
31the  whole card disappears from $e8 and is mapped to the new
32address just written.  Make sure $4a is written before $48,
33otherwise your chance is only 1:16 to find the board :-).
34
35The local memory-map is even active when mapped to $e8:
36
37$0-$7e		Autokonfig-space, see Z-II docs.
38
39$80-$7fd	reserved
40
41$7fe		Speed-select Register: Read & Write
42		(description see further down)
43
44$800-$8ff	IDE-Select 0 (Port 0, Register set 0)
45
46$900-$9ff	IDE-Select 1 (Port 0, Register set 1)
47
48$a00-$aff	IDE-Select 2 (Port 1, Register set 0)
49
50$b00-$bff	IDE-Select 3 (Port 1, Register set 1)
51
52$c00-$cff	IDE-Select 4 (Port 2, Register set 0,
53                          Catweasel only!)
54
55$d00-$dff	IDE-Select 5 (Port 3, Register set 1,
56			      Catweasel only!)
57
58$e00-$eff	local expansion port, on Catweasel Z-II the 
59		Catweasel registers are also mapped here.
60		Never touch, use multidisk.device!
61		
62$f00		read only, Byte-access: Bit 7 shows the 
63		level of the IRQ-line of IDE port 0. 
64
65$f01-$f3f	mirror of $f00
66
67$f40		read only, Byte-access: Bit 7 shows the 
68		level of the IRQ-line of IDE port 1. 
69
70$f41-$f7f	mirror of $f40
71
72$f80		read only, Byte-access: Bit 7 shows the 
73		level of the IRQ-line of IDE port 2. 
74		(Catweasel only!)
75
76$f81-$fbf	mirror of $f80
77
78$fc0		write-only: Writing any value to this
79		register enables IRQs to be passed from the 
80		IDE ports to the Zorro bus. This mechanism 
81		has been implemented to be compatible with 
82		harddisks that are either defective or have
83		a buggy firmware and pull the IRQ line up 
84		while starting up. If interrupts would 
85		always be passed to the bus, the computer 
86		might not start up. Once enabled, this flag 
87		can not be disabled again. The level of the 
88		flag can not be determined by software 
89		(what for? Write to me if it's necessary!).
90
91$fc1-$fff	mirror of $fc0
92
93$1000-$ffff	Buddha-Rom with offset $1000 in the rom
94		chip. The addresses $0 to $fff of the rom 
95		chip cannot be read. Rom is Byte-wide and
96		mapped to even addresses.
97
98The  IDE ports issue an INT2.  You can read the level of the
99IRQ-lines  of  the  IDE-ports by reading from the three (two
100for  Buddha-only)  registers  $f00, $f40 and $f80.  This way
101more  than one I/O request can be handled and you can easily
102determine  what  driver  has  to serve the INT2.  Buddha and
103Catweasel  expansion  boards  can issue an INT6.  A separate
104memory  map  is available for the I/O module and the sysop's
105I/O module.
106
107The IDE ports are fed by the address lines A2 to A4, just as
108the  Amiga  1200  and  Amiga  4000  IDE ports are.  This way
109existing  drivers  can be easily ported to Buddha.  A move.l
110polls  two  words  out of the same address of IDE port since
111every  word  is  mirrored  once.  movem is not possible, but
112it's  not  necessary  either,  because  you can only speedup
11368000  systems  with  this  technique.   A 68020 system with
114fastmem is faster with move.l.
115
116If you're using the mirrored registers of the IDE-ports with
117A6=1,  the Buddha doesn't care about the speed that you have
118selected  in  the  speed  register (see further down).  With
119A6=1  (for example $840 for port 0, register set 0), a 780ns
120access  is being made.  These registers should be used for a
121command   access   to  the  harddisk/CD-Rom,  since  command
122accesses  are Byte-wide and have to be made slower according
123to the ATA-X3T9 manual.
124
125Now  for the speed-register:  The register is byte-wide, and
126only  the  upper  three  bits are used (Bits 7 to 5).  Bit 4
127must  always  be set to 1 to be compatible with later Buddha
128versions  (if  I'll  ever  update this one).  I presume that
129I'll  never use the lower four bits, but they have to be set
130to 1 by definition.
131  The  values in this table have to be shifted 5 bits to the
132left and or'd with $1f (this sets the lower 5 bits).
133
134All  the timings have in common:  Select and IOR/IOW rise at
135the  same  time.   IOR  and  IOW have a propagation delay of
136about  30ns  to  the clocks on the Zorro bus, that's why the
137values  are no multiple of 71.  One clock-cycle is 71ns long
138(exactly 70,5 at 14,18 Mhz on PAL systems).
139
140value 0 (Default after reset)
141
142497ns Select (7 clock cycles) , IOR/IOW after 172ns (2 clock cycles)
143(same timing as the Amiga 1200 does on it's IDE port without
144accelerator card)
145
146value 1
147
148639ns Select (9 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 243ns (3 clock cycles)
149
150value 2
151
152781ns Select (11 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 314ns (4 clock cycles)
153
154value 3
155
156355ns Select (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 101ns (1 clock cycle)
157
158value 4
159
160355ns Select (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 172ns (2 clock cycles)
161
162value 5
163
164355ns Select (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 243ns (3 clock cycles)
165
166value 6
167
1681065ns Select (15 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 314ns (4 clock cycles)
169
170value 7
171
172355ns Select, (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 101ns (1 clock cycle)
173
174When accessing IDE registers with A6=1 (for example $84x),
175the timing will always be mode 0 8-bit compatible, no matter
176what you have selected in the speed register:
177
178781ns select, IOR/IOW after 4 clock cycles (=314ns) aktive. 
179
180All  the  timings with a very short select-signal (the 355ns
181fast  accesses)  depend  on the accelerator card used in the
182system:  Sometimes two more clock cycles are inserted by the
183bus  interface,  making  the  whole access 497ns long.  This
184doesn't  affect  the  reliability  of the controller nor the
185performance  of  the  card,  since  this doesn't happen very
186often.
187
188All  the  timings  are  calculated  and  only  confirmed  by
189measurements  that allowed me to count the clock cycles.  If
190the  system  is clocked by an oscillator other than 28,37516
191Mhz  (for  example  the  NTSC-frequency  28,63636 Mhz), each
192clock  cycle is shortened to a bit less than 70ns (not worth
193mentioning).   You  could think of a small performance boost
194by  overclocking  the  system,  but  you would either need a
195multisync  monitor,  or  a  graphics card, and your internal
196diskdrive would go crazy, that's why you shouldn't tune your
197Amiga this way.
198
199Giving  you  the  possibility  to  write  software  that  is
200compatible  with both the Buddha and the Catweasel Z-II, The
201Buddha  acts  just  like  a  Catweasel  Z-II  with no device
202connected  to  the  third  IDE-port.   The IRQ-register $f80
203always  shows a "no IRQ here" on the Buddha, and accesses to
204the  third  IDE  port  are  going into data's Nirwana on the
205Buddha.
206
207			    Jens Schönfeld february 19th, 1997
208					updated may 27th, 1997
209			     eMail: sysop@nostlgic.tng.oche.de
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