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diff --git a/share/man/man4/mlx.4 b/share/man/man4/mlx.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..696d048 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/mlx.4 @@ -0,0 +1,256 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2003 David O'Brien +.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven +.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Michael Smith +.\" 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. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``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 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 August 10, 2004 +.Dt MLX 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mlx +.Nd Mylex DAC-family RAID driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device pci" +.Cd "device mlx" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +mlx_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for Mylex DAC-family PCI to SCSI RAID controllers, +including versions relabeled by Digital/Compaq. +.Sh HARDWARE +Controllers supported by the +.Nm +driver include: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Mylex DAC960P +.It +Mylex DAC960PD / DEC KZPSC (Fast Wide) +.It +Mylex DAC960PDU +.It +Mylex DAC960PL +.It +Mylex DAC960PJ +.It +Mylex DAC960PG +.It +Mylex DAC960PU / DEC PZPAC (Ultra Wide) +.It +Mylex AcceleRAID 150 (DAC960PRL) +.It +Mylex AcceleRAID 250 (DAC960PTL1) +.It +Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 (DAC1164P) +.It +RAIDarray 230 controllers, aka the Ultra-SCSI DEC KZPAC-AA (1-ch, 4MB +cache), KZPAC-CA (3-ch, 4MB), KZPAC-CB (3-ch, 8MB cache) +.El +.Pp +All major firmware revisions (2.x, 3.x, 4.x and 5.x) are supported, however +it is always advisable to upgrade to the most recent firmware +available for the controller. +.Pp +Compatible Mylex controllers not listed should work, but have not been +verified. +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Ss Controller initialisation phase +.Bl -diag +.It mlx%d: controller initialisation in progress... +.It mlx%d: initialisation complete +.Pp +The controller firmware is performing/has completed initialisation. +.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d not responding +.Pp +The drive at channel:target is not responding; it may have failed or +been removed. +.It mlx%d: spinning up drives... +.Pp +Drive startup is in progress; this may take several minutes. +.It mlx%d: configuration checksum error +.Pp +The array configuration has become corrupted. +.It mlx%d: mirror race recovery in progress +.It mlx%d: mirror race on a critical system drive +.It mlx%d: mirror race recovery failed +.Pp +These error codes are undocumented. +.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d COD mismatch +.Pp +Configuration data on the drive at channel:target does not match the +rest of the array. +.It mlx%d: system drive installation aborted +.Pp +Errors occurred preventing one or more system drives from being configured. +.It mlx%d: new controller configuration found +.Pp +The controller has detected a configuration on disk which supersedes the +configuration in its nonvolatile memory. +It will reset and come up with the new configuration. +.It mlx%d: FATAL MEMORY PARITY ERROR +.Pp +Firmware detected a fatal memory error; the driver will not attempt to +attach to this controller. +.It mlx%d: unknown firmware initialisation error %x:%x:%x +.Pp +An unknown error occurred during initialisation; it will be ignored. +.El +.Ss Driver initialisation/shutdown phase: +.Bl -diag +.It mlx%d: can't allocate scatter/gather DMA tag +.It mlx%d: can't allocate buffer DMA tag +.It mlx%d: can't allocate s/g table +.It mlx%d: can't make initial s/g list mapping +.It mlx%d: can't make permanent s/g list mapping +.It mlx%d: can't allocate interrupt +.It mlx%d: can't set up interrupt +.Pp +A resource allocation error occurred while initialising the driver; +initialisation has failed and the driver will not attach to this +controller. +.It mlx%d: error fetching drive status +.Pp +The current status of all system drives could not be fetched; attachment +of system drives will be aborted. +.It mlx%d: device_add_child failed +.It mlx%d: bus_generic_attach returned %d +.Pp +Creation of the system drive instances failed; attachment of one or more +system drives may have been aborted. +.It mlxd%d: detaching... +.Pp +The indicated system drive is being detached. +.It mlxd%d: still open, can't detach +.Pp +The indicated system drive is still open or mounted; +the controller cannot be detached. +.It mlx%d: flushing cache... +.Pp +The controller cache is being flushed prior to detach or shutdown. +.El +.Ss Operational diagnostics: +.Bl -diag +.It mlx%d: ENQUIRY failed - %s +.It mlx%d: ENQUIRY2 failed +.It mlx%d: ENQUIRY_OLD failed +.It mlx%d: FLUSH failed - %s +.It mlx%d: CHECK ASYNC failed - %s +.It mlx%d: REBUILD ASYNC failed - %s +.It mlx%d: command failed - %s +.Pp +The controller rejected a command for the reason given. +.It mlx%d: I/O beyond end of unit (%u,%d > %u) +.It mlx%d: I/O error - %s +.Pp +An I/O error was reported by the controller. +.It mlx%d: periodic enquiry failed - %s +.Pp +An attempt to poll the controller for status failed for the reason given. +.It mlx%d: mlx_periodic_enquiry: unknown command %x +.Pp +The periodic status poll has issued a command which has become corrupted. +.It mlxd%d: drive offline +.It mlxd%d: drive online +.It mlxd%d: drive critical +.Pp +The system disk indicated has changed state. +.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d reset +.It mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d killed %s +.It "mlx%d: physical drive %d:%d error log: sense = %d asc = %x asq = %x" +.It "mlx%d: info %4D csi %4D" +.Pp +The drive at channel:target has been reset, killed for the given reason, +or experienced a SCSI error. +.It mlx%d: unknown log message type %x +.It mlx%d: error reading message log - %s +.Pp +An error occurred while trying to read the controller's message log. +.It mlxd%d: consistency check started +.It mlx%d: consistency check completed +.Pp +A user-initiated consistency check has started/completed. +.It mlx%d: drive rebuild started for %d:%d +.It mlx%d: drive rebuild completed +.Pp +A user-initiated physical drive rebuild has started/completed. +.It mlx%d: background check/rebuild operation started +.It mlx%d: background check/rebuild operation completed +.Pp +An automatic system drive consistency check +or physical drive rebuild has started/completed. +.It mlx%d: channel %d pausing for %d seconds +.It mlx%d: channel %d resuming +.It mlx%d: pause command failed - %s +.It mlx%d: pause failed for channel %d +.It mlx%d: resume command failed - %s +.It mlx%d: resume failed for channel %d +.Pp +Controller/channel pause operation notification. +(Channel pause is not currently supported on any controller.) +.It mlx%d: controller wedged (not taking commands) +.Pp +The controller is not responding to attempts to submit new commands. +.It mlx%d: duplicate done event for slot %d +.It mlx%d: done event for nonbusy slot %d +.Pp +Corruption has occurred in either the controller's onboard list of commands +or in the driver. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mlxcontrol 8 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Michael Smith +.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org . +.Pp +This manual page was written by +.An Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven +.Aq asmodai@FreeBSD.org +and +.An Michael Smith +.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org . +.Sh BUGS +The driver does not yet support EISA adapters. +The DEC KZPSC has insufficient flash ROM to hold any reasonably recent firmware. +This has caused problems for this driver. +.Pp +The driver does not yet support the version 6.x firmware as found in the +AcceleRAID 352 and eXtremeRAID 2000 and 3000 products. |
