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+The Amiga Buddha and Catweasel IDE Driver (part of ide.c) was written by
+Geert Uytterhoeven based on the following specifications:
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Register map of the Buddha IDE controller and the
+Buddha-part of the Catweasel Zorro-II version
+
+The Autoconfiguration has been implemented just as Commodore
+described  in  their  manuals, no tricks have been used (for
+example leaving some address lines out of the equations...).
+If you want to configure the board yourself (for example let
+a  Linux  kernel  configure the card), look at the Commodore
+Docs.  Reading the nibbles should give this information:
+
+Vendor number: 4626 ($1212)
+product number: 0 (42 for Catweasel Z-II)
+Serial number: 0
+Rom-vector: $1000
+
+The  card  should be a Z-II board, size 64K, not for freemem
+list, Rom-Vektor is valid, no second Autoconfig-board on the
+same card, no space preferrence, supports "Shutup_forever".
+
+Setting  the  base address should be done in two steps, just
+as  the Amiga Kickstart does:  The lower nibble of the 8-Bit
+address is written to $4a, then the whole Byte is written to
+$48, while it doesn't matter how often you're writing to $4a
+as  long as $48 is not touched.  After $48 has been written,
+the  whole card disappears from $e8 and is mapped to the new
+addrress just written.  Make shure $4a is written befor $48,
+otherwise your chance is only 1:16 to find the board :-).
+
+The local memory-map is even active when mapped to $e8:
+
+$0-$7e		Autokonfig-space, see Z-II docs.
+
+$80-$7fd	reserved
+
+$7fe		Speed-select Register: Read & Write
+		(description see further down)
+
+$800-$8ff	IDE-Select 0 (Port 0, Register set 0)
+
+$900-$9ff	IDE-Select 1 (Port 0, Register set 1)
+
+$a00-$aff	IDE-Select 2 (Port 1, Register set 0)
+
+$b00-$bff	IDE-Select 3 (Port 1, Register set 1)
+
+$c00-$cff	IDE-Select 4 (Port 2, Register set 0,
+                          Catweasel only!)
+
+$d00-$dff	IDE-Select 5 (Port 3, Register set 1,
+			      Catweasel only!)
+
+$e00-$eff	local expansion port, on Catweasel Z-II the 
+		Catweasel registers are also mapped here.
+		Never touch, use multidisk.device!
+		
+$f00		read only, Byte-access: Bit 7 shows the 
+		level of the IRQ-line of IDE port 0. 
+
+$f01-$f3f	mirror of $f00
+
+$f40		read only, Byte-access: Bit 7 shows the 
+		level of the IRQ-line of IDE port 1. 
+
+$f41-$f7f	mirror of $f40
+
+$f80		read only, Byte-access: Bit 7 shows the 
+		level of the IRQ-line of IDE port 2. 
+		(Catweasel only!)
+
+$f81-$fbf	mirror of $f80
+
+$fc0		write-only: Writing any value to this
+		register enables IRQs to be passed from the 
+		IDE ports to the Zorro bus. This mechanism 
+		has been implemented to be compatible with 
+		harddisks that are either defective or have
+		a buggy firmware and pull the IRQ line up 
+		while starting up. If interrupts would 
+		always be passed to the bus, the computer 
+		might not start up. Once enabled, this flag 
+		can not be disabled again. The level of the 
+		flag can not be determined by software 
+		(what for? Write to me if it's necessary!).
+
+$fc1-$fff	mirror of $fc0
+
+$1000-$ffff	Buddha-Rom with offset $1000 in the rom
+		chip. The addresses $0 to $fff of the rom 
+		chip cannot be read. Rom is Byte-wide and
+		mapped to even addresses.
+
+The  IDE ports issue an INT2.  You can read the level of the
+IRQ-lines  of  the  IDE-ports by reading from the three (two
+for  Buddha-only)  registers  $f00, $f40 and $f80.  This way
+more  than one I/O request can be handled and you can easily
+determine  what  driver  has  to serve the INT2.  Buddha and
+Catweasel  expansion  boards  can issue an INT6.  A seperate
+memory  map  is available for the I/O module and the sysop's
+I/O module.
+
+The IDE ports are fed by the address lines A2 to A4, just as
+the  Amiga  1200  and  Amiga  4000  IDE ports are.  This way
+existing  drivers  can be easily ported to Buddha.  A move.l
+polls  two  words  out of the same address of IDE port since
+every  word  is  mirrored  once.  movem is not possible, but
+it's  not  necessary  either,  because  you can only speedup
+68000  systems  with  this  technique.   A 68020 system with
+fastmem is faster with move.l.
+
+If you're using the mirrored registers of the IDE-ports with
+A6=1,  the Buddha doesn't care about the speed that you have
+selected  in  the  speed  register (see further down).  With
+A6=1  (for example $840 for port 0, register set 0), a 780ns
+access  is being made.  These registers should be used for a
+command   access   to  the  harddisk/CD-Rom,  since  command
+accesses  are Byte-wide and have to be made slower according
+to the ATA-X3T9 manual.
+
+Now  for the speed-register:  The register is byte-wide, and
+only  the  upper  three  bits are used (Bits 7 to 5).  Bit 4
+must  always  be set to 1 to be compatible with later Buddha
+versions  (if  I'll  ever  update this one).  I presume that
+I'll  never use the lower four bits, but they have to be set
+to 1 by definition.
+  The  values in this table have to be shifted 5 bits to the
+left and or'd with $1f (this sets the lower 5 bits).
+
+All  the timings have in common:  Select and IOR/IOW rise at
+the  same  time.   IOR  and  IOW have a propagation delay of
+about  30ns  to  the clocks on the Zorro bus, that's why the
+values  are no multiple of 71.  One clock-cycle is 71ns long
+(exactly 70,5 at 14,18 Mhz on PAL systems).
+
+value 0 (Default after reset)
+
+497ns Select (7 clock cycles) , IOR/IOW after 172ns (2 clock cycles)
+(same timing as the Amiga 1200 does on it's IDE port without
+accelerator card)
+
+value 1
+
+639ns Select (9 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 243ns (3 clock cycles)
+
+value 2
+
+781ns Select (11 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 314ns (4 clock cycles)
+
+value 3
+
+355ns Select (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 101ns (1 clock cycle)
+
+value 4
+
+355ns Select (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 172ns (2 clock cycles)
+
+value 5
+
+355ns Select (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 243ns (3 clock cycles)
+
+value 6
+
+1065ns Select (15 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 314ns (4 clock cycles)
+
+value 7
+
+355ns Select, (5 clock cycles), IOR/IOW after 101ns (1 clock cycle)
+
+When accessing IDE registers with A6=1 (for example $84x),
+the timing will always be mode 0 8-bit compatible, no matter
+what you have selected in the speed register:
+
+781ns select, IOR/IOW after 4 clock cycles (=314ns) aktive. 
+
+All  the  timings with a very short select-signal (the 355ns
+fast  accesses)  depend  on the accelerator card used in the
+system:  Sometimes two more clock cycles are inserted by the
+bus  interface,  making  the  whole access 497ns long.  This
+doesn't  affect  the  reliability  of the controller nor the
+performance  of  the  card,  since  this doesn't happen very
+often.
+
+All  the  timings  are  calculated  and  only  confirmed  by
+measurements  that allowed me to count the clock cycles.  If
+the  system  is clocked by an oscillator other than 28,37516
+Mhz  (for  example  the  NTSC-frequency  28,63636 Mhz), each
+clock  cycle is shortened to a bit less than 70ns (not worth
+mentioning).   You  could think of a small performance boost
+by  overclocking  the  system,  but  you would either need a
+multisync  monitor,  or  a  graphics card, and your internal
+diskdrive would go crazy, that's why you shouldn't tune your
+Amiga this way.
+
+Giving  you  the  possibility  to  write  software  that  is
+compatible  with both the Buddha and the Catweasel Z-II, The
+Buddha  acts  just  like  a  Catweasel  Z-II  with no device
+connected  to  the  third  IDE-port.   The IRQ-register $f80
+always  shows a "no IRQ here" on the Buddha, and accesses to
+the  third  IDE  port  are  going into data's Nirwana on the
+Buddha.
+
+			    Jens Schönfeld february 19th, 1997
+					updated may 27th, 1997
+			     eMail: sysop@nostlgic.tng.oche.de
+

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