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29.Dd January 27, 2000
30.Dt ATA 4
31.Os FreeBSD 4.0
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm ata ,
34.Nm acd ,
35.Nm ad ,
36.Nm afd ,
37.Nm ast
38.Nd
39Generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41For ISA based ATA/ATAPI support:
42.Cd device isa
43.Cd device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
44.Cd device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
45.Pp
46For PCI based ATA/ATAPI support:
47.Cd device pci
48.Cd device ata
49.Pp
50To support ATA compliant disk drives:
51.Cd device atadisk
52.Pp
53To support ATAPI CD-ROM, CDR, CDRW, DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives:
54.Cd device atapicd
55.Pp
56To support ATAPI floppy drives,
57such as the ZIP and LS120:
58.Cd device atapifd
59.Pp
60To support ATAPI tape drives:
61.Cd device atapist
62.Pp
63To enable static controller and device numbering
64(see the
65.Sx NOTES
66section below):
67.Cd options ATA_STATIC_ID
68.Pp
69To enable DMA on an ATAPI device:
70.Cd options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA
71.Pp
72To enable Tagged Queuing support (only IBM DPTA and DTLA drives support that)
73.Cd options ATA_ENABLE_TAGS
74.Sh DESCRIPTION
75This driver provides access to disk drives, ATAPI CD-ROM and DVD drives,
76ZIP drives and tape streamers connected to controllers
77according to the ATA and ATAPI standards.
78These devices are also commonly known as IDE or EIDE devices.
79.Pp
80The currently supported controllers with their maximum speed include:
81.Pp
82.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" -compact
83.It Acerlabs Aladdin
84Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
85.It AMD 756
86Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec
87.It CMD 646
88DMA 2 (WDMA2), 16 MB/sec
89.It CMD 648
90Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec
91.It CMD 649
92Ultra DMA 100 (UDMA5), 100 MB/sec
93.It Cypress 82C693
94DMA 2 (WDMA2), 16 MB/sec
95.It HighPoint HPT366
96Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec
97.It HighPoint HPT370
98Ultra DMA 100 (UDMA5), 100 MB/sec
99.It Intel PIIX
100DMA 2 (WDMA2), 16 MB/sec
101.It Intel PIIX3
102DMA 2 (WDMA2), 16 MB/sec
103.It Intel PIIX4
104Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
105.It Intel ICH0
106Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
107.It Intel ICH
108Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec
109.It Intel ICH2
110Ultra DMA 100 (UDMA5), 100 MB/sec
111.It Promise Ultra/Fasttrak-33
112Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
113.It Promise Ultra/Fasttrak-66
114Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec
115.It Promise Ultra/Fasttrak-100
116Ultra DMA 100 (UDMA5), 100 MB/sec
117.It ServerWorks ROSB4
118Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
119.It SiS 5591
120Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
121.It Cyrix 5530
122Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
123.It VIA 82C586
124Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
125.It VIA 82C686
126Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec
127.El
128.Pp
129All unknown chipsets can be supported at the maximum speed of 16 MB/sec.
130.Pp
131The ata driver also allows for changes to the transfer mode of the devices
132at a later time when the system is up and running.
133.Pp
134The driver attempts to set the maximum performance transfer mode on your disk
135drives by selecting the highest possible DMA mode.
136ATAPI devices are left in PIO mode because DMA problems are common despite the
137device specifications.
138You can always try to set DMA mode on an ATAPI device using the sysctl
139method described here,
140but be aware that your hardware might
141.Em not
142support it and can
143.Em hang
144the system.
145.Pp
146To see the devices' current access modes, use the command line:
147.Pp
148.Dl sysctl hw.atamodes
149.Pp
150which results in the modes of the devices being displayed as a string
151like this:
152.Pp
153.Dl hw.atamodes: dma,pio,---,pio,dma,---,dma,---,   (--- = no device)
154.Pp
155This means that ata0-master is in DMA mode,
156ata0-slave is in PIO mode,
157and so forth.
158You can set the mode with sysctl -w and a string like the above,
159for example:
160.Pp
161.Dl sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,---,dma,pio,---,dma,---,
162.Pp
163The new modes are set as soon as the sysctl command returns.
164.Pp
165.Sh FILES
166.Bl -tag -width "/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC " -compact
167.It Pa /dev/ad*
168ATA disk device nodes
169.It Pa /dev/acd*
170ATAPI CD-ROM device nodes
171.It Pa /dev/afd*
172ATAPI floppy drive device nodes
173.It Pa /dev/ast*
174ATAPI tape drive device nodes
175.It Pa /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
176sample generic kernel config file for ata based systems
177.El
178.Sh NOTES
179Static numbering
180(enabled with the
181.Dv ATA_STATIC_ID
182kernel option)
183reserves a number for each possibly connected disk,
184even when not present.
185This may result in odd situations where,
186for example,
187ad0 and ad2 exist in the absence of ad1.
188The advantage is that the addition of the formerly absent drive
189does not cause the numbers of the other drives to change.
190.Pp
191The ata driver does not support MFM/RLL/ESDI (ST-506) style disks.
192.Pp
193Remember that in order to use UDMA4 mode you
194.Em have
195to use a special 80 conductor cable,
196and the driver tries to determine if you have such a cable
197attached before setting UDMA4 mode.
198.Pp
199The use of UDMA4(66MHz) and higher together with non-UDMA4 devices on
200the same ATA channel is not recommended,
201unless they are run at the non-UDMA4 device's lower speed.
202The driver has been designed to handle that kind of setup but lots of
203older devices do not like this.
204.Sh AUTHORS
205.An -nosplit
206The ata driver was written by
207.An S\(/oren Schmidt
208.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .
209.Pp
210This manual page was written by
211.An Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
212.Aq asmodai@FreeBSD.org
213and
214.An S\(/oren Schmidt
215.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .
216