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