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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd August 7, 2009 29.Dt IPS 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm ips 33.Nd IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID controller driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile this driver into the kernel, 36place the following lines in your 37kernel configuration file: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent 39.Cd "device pci" 40.Cd "device scbus" 41.Cd "device ips" 42.Ed 43.Pp 44Alternatively, to load the driver as a 45module at boot time, place the following line in 46.Xr loader.conf 5 : 47.Bd -literal -offset indent 48ips_load="YES" 49.Ed 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53driver claims to support the 54.Tn IBM 55(now Adaptec) ServeRAID series 56.Tn SCSI 57controller cards. 58.Pp 59These cards come with a built in configuration utility stored in 60the firmware known as the 61.Tn ISPR . 62This utility is accessed with the 63.Aq Em Ctrl+I 64key combination during the initial card 65.Tn POST . 66.Pp 67It is highly recommended that this utility be used to configure the card 68before attempting to diagnose the below error messages. 69.Pp 70In some cases, the 71.Nm 72driver can have difficulties attaching during 73the system initialization period. 74To avoid these difficulties, set the 75.Va hw.ips.0.disable 76tunable to 1. 77It will prevent the driver from attaching. 78.Sh HARDWARE 79Controllers supported by the 80.Nm 81driver include: 82.Pp 83.Bl -bullet -compact 84.It 85IBM ServeRAID 3H 86.It 87ServeRAID 4L/4M/4H 88.It 89ServeRAID Series 5 90.It 91ServeRAID 6i/6M 92.It 93ServeRAID 7t/7k/7M 94.El 95.Pp 96Newer ServeRAID controllers are supported by the 97.Xr aac 4 98or 99.Xr mfi 4 100driver. 101.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 102Several error codes may be shown when the card initializes the 103.Tn IBM 104.Tn ISPR 105utility and are independent of 106.Fx . 107.Bl -diag 108.It ips%d: failed to get adapter configuration data from device 109.It ips%d: failed to get drive configuration data from device 110.Pp 111Unable to obtain adapter or drive configuration. 112.It ips%d iobuf error 113.Pp 114A buffer input/output error has occurred. 115.Bq Er ENXIO 116.El 117.Ss General adapter errors: 118.Bl -diag 119.It Attaching bus failed 120.Pp 121This message is undocumented. 122.It WARNING: command timeout. Adapter is in toaster mode, resetting 123.Pp 124A command timeout has caused the adapter to be reset. 125.It AIEE! adapter reset failed, giving up and going home! Have a nice day 126.Pp 127An error occurred while attempting to reset the adapter. 128.It unable to get adapter configuration 129.It unable to get drive configuration 130.Pp 131There was an error when attempting to get configuration information. 132.It Adapter error during initialization. 133.It adapter initialization failed 134.Pp 135There was an error while attempting to initialize the adapter. 136.It adapter failed config check 137.It adapter clear failed 138.Pp 139There was an error while checking the adapter. 140.It device is disabled 141.Pp 142The adapter is disabled. 143.It resource allocation failed 144.It irq allocation failed 145.It irq setup failed 146.Pp 147The driver was unable to allocate resources for the device. 148.El 149.Ss Error messages due to DMA: 150.Bl -diag 151.It can't alloc command dma tag 152.It can't alloc SG dma tag 153.It can't alloc dma tag for statue queue 154.It dmamap failed 155.Pp 156Failure to map or allocate DMA resources. 157.El 158.Ss Cache, buffer, and command errors: 159.Bl -diag 160.It failed to initialize command buffers 161.It no mem for command slots! 162.Pp 163The 164.Nm 165driver will return 166.Bq Er ENOMEM 167in such cases. 168.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't flush cache! 169.It ERROR: cache flush command failed! 170.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't update nvram 171.It ERROR: nvram update command failed! 172.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! 173.It ERROR: cache sync command failed! 174.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! 175.It ERROR: etable command failed! 176.El 177.Sh COMPATIBILITY 178Unlike many of the other 179.Tn SCSI 180devices in 181.Fx , 182the 183.Nm 184driver does not use the 185.Xr cam 4 186.Tn SCSI 187subsystem. 188.Sh SEE ALSO 189.Xr aac 4 , 190.Xr mfi 4 , 191.Xr ch 4 , 192.Xr da 4 , 193.Xr sysctl 8 194.Sh AUTHORS 195The 196.Nm 197driver was written by 198.An -nosplit 199.An David Jefferys 200and 201.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org . 202.Pp 203This manual page was written by 204.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 205