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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 November 4, 2006 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 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 sysctl 8 191.Sh AUTHORS 192The 193.Nm 194driver was written by 195.An -nosplit 196.An David Jefferys 197and 198.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org . 199.Pp 200This manual page was written by 201.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 202