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28.Dd August 8, 2004
29.Dt IPS 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm ips
33.Nd IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID controller driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd device scbus
36.Cd device ips
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver claims to support the
41.Tn IBM
42(now Adaptec) ServeRAID series
43.Tn SCSI
44controller cards.
45.Pp
46These cards come with a built in configuration utility stored in
47the firmware known as the
48.Tn ISPR .
49This utility is accessed with the
50.Aq Em Ctrl+I
51key combination during the initial card
52.Tn POST .
53.Pp
54It is highly recommended that this utility be used to configure the card
55before attempting to diagnose the below error messages.
56.Pp
57In some cases, the
58.Nm
59driver can have difficulties attaching during
60the system initialization period.
61To avoid these difficulties, set the
62.Va hw.ips.0.disable
63tunable to 1.
64It will prevent the driver from attaching.
65.Sh HARDWARE
66Controllers supported by the
67.Nm
68driver include:
69.Pp
70.Bl -bullet -compact
71.It
72IBM ServeRAID 3H
73.It
74ServeRAID 4L/4M/4H
75.It
76ServeRAID Series 5
77.It
78ServeRAID 6i/6M
79.El
80.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
81Several error codes may be shown when the card initializes the
82.Tn IBM
83.Tn ISPR
84utility and are independent of
85.Fx .
86.Bl -diag
87.It ips%d: failed to get adapter configuration data from device
88.It ips%d: failed to get drive configuration data from device
89.Pp
90Unable to obtain adapter or drive configuration.
91.It ips%d iobuf error
92.Pp
93A buffer input/output error has occurred.
94.Bq Er ENXIO
95.El
96.Ss General adapter errors:
97.Bl -diag
98.It Attaching bus failed
99.Pp
100This message is undocumented.
101.It WARNING: command timeout. Adapter is in toaster mode, resetting
102.Pp
103A command timeout has caused the adapter to be reset.
104.It AIEE! adapter reset failed, giving up and going home! Have a nice day
105.Pp
106An error occurred while attempting to reset the adapter.
107.It unable to get adapter configuration
108.It unable to get drive configuration
109.Pp
110There was an error when attempting to get configuration information.
111.It Adapter error during initialization.
112.It adapter initialization failed
113.Pp
114There was an error while attempting to initialize the adapter.
115.It adapter failed config check
116.It adapter clear failed
117.Pp
118There was an error while checking the adapter.
119.It device is disabled
120.Pp
121The adapter is disabled.
122.It resource allocation failed
123.It irq allocation failed
124.It irq setup failed
125.Pp
126The driver was unable to allocate resources for the device.
127.El
128.Ss Error messages due to DMA:
129.Bl -diag
130.It can't alloc command dma tag
131.It can't alloc SG dma tag
132.It can't alloc dma tag for statue queue
133.It dmamap failed
134.Pp
135Failure to map or allocate DMA resources.
136.El
137.Ss Cache, buffer, and command errors:
138.Bl -diag
139.It failed to initialize command buffers
140.It no mem for command slots!
141.Pp
142The
143.Nm
144driver will return
145.Bq Er ENOMEM
146in such cases.
147.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't flush cache!
148.It ERROR: cache flush command failed!
149.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't update nvram
150.It ERROR: nvram update command failed!
151.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache!
152.It ERROR: cache sync command failed!
153.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache!
154.It ERROR: etable command failed!
155.El
156.Sh COMPATIBILITY
157Unlike many of the other
158.Tn SCSI
159devices in
160.Fx ,
161the
162.Nm
163driver does not use the
164.Xr cam 4
165.Tn SCSI
166subsystem.
167.Sh SEE ALSO
168.Xr ch 4 ,
169.Xr da 4 ,
170.Xr sysctl 8
171.Sh AUTHORS
172The
173.Nm
174driver was written by
175.An -nosplit
176.An David Jefferys
177and
178.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org .
179.Pp
180This manual page was written by
181.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .
182