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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: src/share/man/man4/ips.4,v 1.2 2003/11/12 02:26:47 hmp Exp $ 27.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man4/ips.4,v 1.3 2008/05/02 02:05:05 swildner Exp $ 28.\" 29.Dd November 11, 2003 30.Dt IPS 4 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm ips 34.Nd IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID controller driver 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36.Cd device scbus 37.Cd device ips 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm 41driver claims to support the 42.Tn IBM 43(now Adaptec) ServeRAID series 44.Tn SCSI 45controller cards. 46Some supported devices include: 47.Pp 48.Bl -item -compact 49.It 50IBM ServeRAID 3H 51.It 52ServeRAID 4L/4M/4H 53.It 54ServeRAID Series 5 55.It 56ServeRAID 6i/6M 57.It 58ServeRAID 7t/7k/7M 59.El 60.Pp 61Newer ServeRAID controllers are supported by the 62.Xr aac 4 63driver. 64.Pp 65These cards come with a built in configuration utility stored in 66the firmware known as the 67.Tn ISPR . 68This utility is accessed with the 69.Em CTRL + I 70key combination during the initial card 71.Tn POST . 72.Pp 73It is highly recommended that this utility be used to configure the card 74before attempting to diagnose the below error messages. 75.Pp 76In some cases, the 77.Nm 78driver can have difficulties attaching during 79the system initialization period. 80To avoid these difficulties, set the 81.Dl hw.ips.0.disable 82tunable to 83.Dq 1 . 84This 85.Tn MIB 86prevents the driver from attaching. 87.Pp 88If you see occasional iobuf errors on the console after 89.Xr sync 2 90or 91.Xr fsync 2 92are issued, you can try setting 93.Dl debug.ips.ignore_flush_cmd 94tunable to 95.Dq 1 96and see if that stops it. 97You can also use the 98.Xr sysctl 8 99command to change this setting after boot. 100.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 101Several error codes may be shown when the card initializes the 102.Tn IBM 103.Tn ISPR 104utility and are independent of 105.Dx . 106.Bl -diag 107.It ips%d: failed to get adapter configuration data from device 108.It ips%d: failed to get drive configuration data from device 109.Pp 110Unable to obtain adapter or drive configuration. 111.It ips%d iobuf error 112.Pp 113A buffer input/output error has occurred. 114.Bq Er ENXIO 115.El 116.Ss General adapter errors: 117.Bl -diag 118.It Attaching bus failed 119.Pp 120This message is undocumented. 121.It WARNING: command timeout. Adapter is in toaster mode, resetting 122.Pp 123A command timeout has caused the adapter to be reset. 124.It AIEE! adapter reset failed, giving up and going home! Have a nice day 125.Pp 126An error occurred while attempting to reset the adapter. 127.It unable to get adapter configuration 128.It unable to get drive configuration 129.Pp 130There was an error when attempting to get configuration information. 131.It Adapter error during initialization. 132.It adapter initialization failed 133.Pp 134There was an error while attempting to initialize the adapter. 135.It adapter failed config check 136.It adapter clear failed 137.Pp 138There was an error while checking the adapter. 139.It device is disabled 140.Pp 141The adapter is disabled. 142.It resource allocation failed 143.It irq allocation failed 144.It irq setup failed 145.Pp 146The driver was unable to allocate resources for the device. 147.El 148.Ss Error messages due to DMA: 149.Bl -diag 150.It can't alloc command dma tag 151.It can't alloc SG dma tag 152.It can't alloc dma tag for statue queue 153.It dmamap failed 154.Pp 155Failure to map or allocate DMA resources. 156.El 157.Ss Cache, buffer, and command errors: 158.Bl -diag 159.It failed to initialize command buffers 160.It no mem for command slots! 161.Pp 162The 163.Nm 164driver will return 165.Bq Er ENOMEM 166in such cases. 167.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't flush cache! 168.It ERROR: cache flush command failed! 169.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't update nvram 170.It ERROR: nvram update command failed! 171.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! 172.It ERROR: cache sync command failed! 173.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! 174.It ERROR: etable command failed! 175.El 176.Sh COMPATIBILITY 177Unlike many of the other 178.Tn SCSI 179devices in 180.Dx , 181the 182.Nm 183driver does not use the 184.Xr cam 4 185.Tn SCSI 186subsystem. 187.Sh SEE ALSO 188.Xr aac 4 , 189.Xr ch 4 , 190.Xr da 4 , 191.Xr sysctl 8 192.Sh AUTHORS 193The 194.Nm 195driver was written by 196.An -nosplit 197.An David Jefferys 198and 199.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org . 200.Pp 201This manual page was written by 202.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 203