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author | sos <sos@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-15 15:40:53 +0000 |
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committer | sos <sos@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-03-15 15:40:53 +0000 |
commit | 86a182c8a744be51903969fa78cd0f545033ef9a (patch) | |
tree | 1a385b1bc91c1aa4351e14e4da26702743043e1b /sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.8 | |
parent | 469ebe3b82e6f607de816b173e958760c4a7b953 (diff) | |
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Add atacontrol, a util to control variuos aspects of the ATA.4 driver,
please consult atacontrol.8 for usage..
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diff --git a/sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.8 b/sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c24549 --- /dev/null +++ b/sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.8 @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2000,2001 Søren Schmidt +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd December 8, 2000 +.Dt ATACONTROL 8 +.Os FreeBSD +.Sh NAME +.Nm atacontrol +.Nd +ATA device driver control program +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Aq Ar command +.Op channel [args] + +.Nm +.Ic attach +.Op channel +.Nm +.Ic detach +.Op channel +.Nm +.Ic reinit +.Op channel +.Nm +.Ic mode +.Op channel +.Op mastermode slavemode +.Nm +.Ic info +.Op channel + +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is a control program that provides the user access and control to the +.Fx +ATA subsystem. +.Pp +.Nm +can cause severe system crashes and loss of data if used improperly, please +exercise caution when using this command!. +.Pp +.Nm +supports the following commands: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 8n +.It Ic attach +Attach an ATA channel, devices on the channel are probed and attached as +is done on boot. +.Pp +.It Ic detach +Detach an ATA channel, devices on the channel are removed from the kernel, +and all outstanding tranfers etc are returned back to the system marked +as failed. +.Pp +.It Ic reinit +Reinitialize an ATA channel. Both devices on the channel are reset and +initialized to the parameters the ATA driver has stored internally. +Devices that has gone bad and no longer responds to the probe, or devices +that has physically been removed are removed from the kernel. Likewise +are devices that show up during a reset, probed and attached. +.Pp +.It Ic mode +Without the two mode arguments the current transfer modes of both +devices are printed. If the mode arguments are given, the ATA driver +is asked to change the transfer modes to those given. The ATA driver +will reject modes that is not supported by the hardware. +Modes are given like PIO3, udma2, udma100, case does not matter. +.Pp +.It Ic info +Show info on the device on the channel, currently only the device +name and manufacture/version strings are shown. +.Pp +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An S\(/oren Schmidt +.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org . +.Pp +This manual page was written by +.An S\(/oren Schmidt +.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org . |