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26.\" $FreeBSD$
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28.Dd April 10, 2000
29.Dt MLX 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm mlx
33.Nd Mylex DAC-family RAID driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd device pci
36.Cd device mlx
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for Mylex DAC-family PCI to SCSI RAID controllers,
41including versions relabeled by Digital/Compaq.
42Supported controllers include:
43.Bl -bullet
44.It
45DAC960P
46.It
47DAC960PD / DEC KZPSC (Fast Wide)
48.It
49DAC960PDU
50.It
51DAC960PL
52.It
53DAC960PJ
54.It
55DAC960PG
56.It
57DAC960PU / DEC PZPAC (Ultra Wide)
58.It
59AcceleRAID 150 (DAC960PRL)
60.It
61AcceleRAID 250 (DAC960PTL1)
62.It
63eXtremeRAID 1100 (DAC1164P)
64.It
65RAIDarray 230 controllers, aka the Ultra-SCSI DEC KZPAC-AA (1-ch, 4MB cache), KZPAC-CA (3-ch, 4MB), KZPAC-CB (3-ch, 8MB cache)
66.El
67.Pp
68All major firmware revisions (2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5.x) are supported, however
69it is always advisable to upgrade to the most recent firmware
70available for the controller.
71.Pp
72Compatible Mylex controllers not listed should work, but have not been
73verified.
74.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
75.Ss Controller initialisation phase
76.Bl -diag
77.It mlx%d: controller initialisation in progress...
78.It mlx%d: initialisation complete
79.Pp
80The controller firmware is performing/has completed initialisation.
81.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d not responding
82.Pp
83The drive at channel:target is not responding; it may have failed or
84been removed.
85.It mlx%d: spinning up drives...
86.Pp
87Drive startup is in progress; this may take several minutes.
88.It mlx%d: configuration checksum error
89.Pp
90The array configuration has become corrupted.
91.It mlx%d: mirror race recovery in progress
92.It mlx%d: mirror race on a critical system drive
93.It mlx%d: mirror race recovery failed
94.Pp
95These error codes are undocumented.
96.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d COD mismatch
97.Pp
98Configuration data on the drive at channel:target does not match the
99rest of the array.
100.It mlx%d: system drive installation aborted
101.Pp
102Errors occurred preventing one or more system drives from being configured.
103.It mlx%d: new controller configuration found
104.Pp
105The controller has detected a configuration on disk which supersedes the
106configuration in its nonvolatile memory.
107It will reset and come up with the new configuration.
108.It mlx%d: FATAL MEMORY PARITY ERROR
109.Pp
110Firmware detected a fatal memory error; the driver will not attempt to
111attach to this controller.
112.It mlx%d: unknown firmware initialisation error %x:%x:%x
113.Pp
114An unknown error occurred during initialisation; it will be ignored.
115.El
116.Ss Driver initialisation/shutdown phase:
117.Bl -diag
118.It mlx%d: can't allocate scatter/gather DMA tag
119.It mlx%d: can't allocate buffer DMA tag
120.It mlx%d: can't allocate s/g table
121.It mlx%d: can't make initial s/g list mapping
122.It mlx%d: can't make permanent s/g list mapping
123.It mlx%d: can't allocate interrupt
124.It mlx%d: can't set up interrupt
125.Pp
126A resource allocation error occurred while initialising the driver;
127initialisation has failed and the driver will not attach to this
128controller.
129.It mlx%d: error fetching drive status
130.Pp
131The current status of all system drives could not be fetched; attachment
132of system drives will be aborted.
133.It mlx%d: device_add_child failed
134.It mlx%d: bus_generic_attach returned %d
135.Pp
136Creation of the system drive instances failed; attachment of one or more
137system drives may have been aborted.
138.It mlxd%d: detaching...
139.Pp
140The indicated system drive is being detached.
141.It mlxd%d: still open, can't detach
142.Pp
143The indicated system drive is still open or mounted;
144the controller cannot be detached.
145.It mlx%d: flushing cache...
146.Pp
147The controller cache is being flushed prior to detach or shutdown.
148.El
149.Ss Operational diagnostics:
150.Bl -diag
151.It mlx%d: ENQUIRY failed - %s
152.It mlx%d: ENQUIRY2 failed
153.It mlx%d: ENQUIRY_OLD failed
154.It mlx%d: FLUSH failed - %s
155.It mlx%d: CHECK ASYNC failed - %s
156.It mlx%d: REBUILD ASYNC failed - %s
157.It mlx%d: command failed - %s
158.Pp
159The controller rejected a command for the reason given.
160.It mlx%d: I/O beyond end of unit (%u,%d > %u)
161.It mlx%d: I/O error - %s
162.Pp
163An I/O error was reported by the controller.
164.It mlx%d: periodic enquiry failed - %s
165.Pp
166An attempt to poll the controller for status failed for the reason given.
167.It mlx%d: mlx_periodic_enquiry: unknown command %x
168.Pp
169The periodic status poll has issued a command which has become corrupted.
170.It mlxd%d: drive offline
171.It mlxd%d: drive online
172.It mlxd%d: drive critical
173.Pp
174The system disk indicated has changed state.
175.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d reset
176.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d killed %s
177.It "mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d error log: sense = %d asc = %x asq = %x"
178.It "mlx%d:   info %4D csi %4D"
179.Pp
180The drive at channel:target has been reset, killed for the given reason,
181or experienced a SCSI error.
182.It mlx%d: unknown log message type %x
183.It mlx%d: error reading message log - %s
184.Pp
185An error occurred while trying to read the controller's message log.
186.It mlxd%d: consistency check started
187.It mlx%d: consistency check completed
188.Pp
189A user-initiated consistency check has started/completed.
190.It mlx%d: drive rebuild started for %d:%d
191.It mlx%d: drive rebuild completed
192.Pp
193A user-initiated physical drive rebuild has started/completed.
194.It mlx%d: background check/rebuild operation started
195.It mlx%d: background check/rebuild operation completed
196.Pp
197An automatic system drive consistency check
198or physical drive rebuild has started/completed.
199.It mlx%d: channel %d pausing for %d seconds
200.It mlx%d: channel %d resuming
201.It mlx%d: pause command failed - %s
202.It mlx%d: pause failed for channel %d
203.It mlx%d: resume command failed - %s
204.It mlx%d: resume failed for channel %d
205.Pp
206Controller/channel pause operation notification.
207(Channel pause is not currently supported on any controller.)
208.It mlx%d: controller wedged (not taking commands)
209.Pp
210The controller is not responding to attempts to submit new commands.
211.It mlx%d: duplicate done event for slot %d
212.It mlx%d: done event for nonbusy slot %d
213.Pp
214Corruption has occurred in either the controller's onboard list of commands
215or in the driver.
216.El
217.Sh SEE ALSO
218.Xr mlxcontrol 8
219.Sh BUGS
220The driver does not yet support EISA adapters.
221The DEC KZPSC has insufficient flash ROM to hold any reasonably recent firmware.
222This has caused problems for this driver.
223.Pp
224The driver does not yet support the version 6.x firmware as found in the
225AcceleRAID 352 and eXtremeRAID 2000 and 3000 products.
226.Sh AUTHORS
227.An -nosplit
228The
229.Nm
230driver was written by
231.An Michael Smith
232.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .
233.Pp
234This manual page was written by
235.An Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
236.Aq asmodai@FreeBSD.org
237and
238.An Michael Smith
239.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .
240