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The aac driver manual page Reviewed by: sheldonh@freebsd.org
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MFS: update HISTORY, synch dates.
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.Dd February 22, 2001
The aac driver manual page Reviewed by: sheldonh@freebsd.org
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.Dt AAC 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm aac
.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd options AAC_COMPAT_LINUX
.Cd options AAC_DEBUG=N
.Cd device pci
.Cd device aac
.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family SCSI Ultra2 and Ultra160
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RAID controllers.
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These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and volume sets.
They have four channels in the add-in version
or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version,
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and are most often found relabeled by Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
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Supported controllers include:
.Bl -bullet
.It
AAC-364
.It
Mega update to the aac driver. 1. Correctly handle commands initiated by the adapter. These commands are defered to a kthread responsible for their processing, then are properly returned to the controller. 2. Add/remove disk devices when notified by the card that a container was created/deleted/offline. 3. Implement crashdump functionality. 4. Support all ioctls needed for the management CLI to work. The linux version of this app can be found at the Dell or HP website. A native version will be forthcoming. MFC-after: 4.4-RELEASE
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Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
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.It
HP NetRAID 4M
.It
Dell PERC 2/Si
.It
Dell PERC 2/QC
.It
Dell PERC 3/Si
.It
Dell PERC 3/Di
.Pp
.El
Access to RAID containers is available via the
.Pa /dev/aacd?
device nodes.
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Individual drives cannot be accessed
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unless they are part of a container or volume set,
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and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.
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Containers can be configured by using
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either the on-board BIOS utility of the card,
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or a Linux-based management application.
.Pp
The
.Pa /dev/aac?
Add /dev/hpn? as an alias to /dev/aac? so that the HP version of the CLI utility will work, and document it in the manpage. MFC after: 3 days
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device nodes provide access to the management interface of the controller.
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One node exists per installed card.
The aliases
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.Pa /dev/afa?
and
.Pa /dev/hpn?
exist for the Dell and HP flavors, respectively, and are required for
the CLI management utility available from these vendors to work.
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Compiling the driver with the
.Dv AAC_COMPAT_LINUX
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option enables the Linux-compatible
.Xr ioctl 2
interface for the management device.
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.Ss Tuning
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The read-only sysctl
Once again throw out the calculation of si_iosize_max and set it to 64K. Although it can go higher, it is not safe to so do on arrays with many members. Compromise by adding a tunable, "hw.aac.iosize_max" that can be set at boottime. Also document in the aac(4) manpage. MFC after: 4 weeks
2001-08-05 07:26:31 +00:00
.Va hw.aac.iosize_max
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defaults to 65536 and may be set at boot time to another value via
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.Xr loader 8 .
This value determines the maximum data transfer size allowed
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to/from an array.
Setting it higher will result in better performance,
especially for large sequential access patterns.
.Em Beware :
internal limitations
of the card limit this value to 64K for arrays with many members.
While it may be safe to raise this value, this is done
.Em at the operator's own risk .
Note also that
performance peaks at a value of 96K,
and drops off dramatically at 128K,
due to other limitations of the card.
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.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/aac.ko -compact
.It Pa /dev/aac?
aac management interface
.It Pa /dev/aacd?
disk/container interface
.It Pa /boot/kernel/aac.ko
aac loadable module
.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Compiling with
.Dv AAC_DEBUG
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set to a number between 0 and 3
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will enable increasingly verbose debug messages.
.Pp
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The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously
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to the driver.
These messages are printed on the system console,
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and are also queued for retrieval by a management application.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kld 4 ,
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.Xr linux 4 ,
blah, fix missing commas in 'SEE ALSO' section.
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.Xr kldload 8 ,
.Xr loader 8 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
Fix a manlint nit with the aac.4 manpage. Submitted by: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
2001-09-27 21:52:42 +00:00
.Fx 4.3 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An Mike Smith
Update @freebsd.org email addresses to @FreeBSD.org as is the precedent.
2000-10-26 15:30:44 +00:00
.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org
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.An Scott Long
Update @freebsd.org email addresses to @FreeBSD.org as is the precedent.
2000-10-26 15:30:44 +00:00
.Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
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.Sh BUGS
Note in the BUGS section that the driver will not work on controllers that have version 1.x firmware. This might also need to go into the release documentation, as many people seem to have been bitten by this. MFC after: 3 days
2001-09-22 04:26:35 +00:00
This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.
Clarify how to determine the firmware version. Submitted by: Anders Andersson <anders@codefactory.se> MFC after: 3 days
2001-09-25 22:33:53 +00:00
The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS
POST and driver attach messages.
Note in the BUGS section that the driver will not work on controllers that have version 1.x firmware. This might also need to go into the release documentation, as many people seem to have been bitten by this. MFC after: 3 days
2001-09-22 04:26:35 +00:00
.Pp
Mega update to the aac driver. 1. Correctly handle commands initiated by the adapter. These commands are defered to a kthread responsible for their processing, then are properly returned to the controller. 2. Add/remove disk devices when notified by the card that a container was created/deleted/offline. 3. Implement crashdump functionality. 4. Support all ioctls needed for the management CLI to work. The linux version of this app can be found at the Dell or HP website. A native version will be forthcoming. MFC-after: 4.4-RELEASE
2001-08-29 23:34:05 +00:00
This driver will not work on systems with more than 4GB of memory.
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.Pp
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The controller is not actually paused on suspend/resume.
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.Pp
Mega update to the aac driver. 1. Correctly handle commands initiated by the adapter. These commands are defered to a kthread responsible for their processing, then are properly returned to the controller. 2. Add/remove disk devices when notified by the card that a container was created/deleted/offline. 3. Implement crashdump functionality. 4. Support all ioctls needed for the management CLI to work. The linux version of this app can be found at the Dell or HP website. A native version will be forthcoming. MFC-after: 4.4-RELEASE
2001-08-29 23:34:05 +00:00
Unloading driver is not supported at this time.
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.Pp
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