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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.\" 28.Dd November 30, 2010 29.Dt IPS 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm ips 33.Nd IBM/Adaptec ServeRAID controller driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Cd device scbus 36.Cd device ips 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40driver claims to support the 41.Tn IBM 42(now Adaptec) ServeRAID series 43.Tn SCSI 44controller cards. 45Some supported devices include: 46.Pp 47.Bl -item -compact 48.It 49IBM ServeRAID 3H 50.It 51ServeRAID 4L/4M/4H 52.It 53ServeRAID Series 5 54.It 55ServeRAID 6i/6M 56.It 57ServeRAID 7t/7k/7M 58.El 59.Pp 60Newer ServeRAID controllers are supported by the 61.Xr aac 4 62or 63.Xr mfi 4 64driver. 65.Pp 66These cards come with a built in configuration utility stored in 67the firmware known as the 68.Tn ISPR . 69This utility is accessed with the 70.Em CTRL + I 71key combination during the initial card 72.Tn POST . 73.Pp 74It is highly recommended that this utility be used to configure the card 75before attempting to diagnose the below error messages. 76.Pp 77In some cases, the 78.Nm 79driver can have difficulties attaching during 80the system initialization period. 81To avoid these difficulties, set the 82.Dl hw.ips.0.disable 83tunable to 84.Dq 1 . 85This 86.Tn MIB 87prevents the driver from attaching. 88.Pp 89If you see occasional iobuf errors on the console after 90.Xr sync 2 91or 92.Xr fsync 2 93are issued, you can try setting 94.Dl debug.ips.ignore_flush_cmd 95tunable to 96.Dq 1 97and see if that stops it. 98You can also use the 99.Xr sysctl 8 100command to change this setting after boot. 101.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 102Several error codes may be shown when the card initializes the 103.Tn IBM 104.Tn ISPR 105utility and are independent of 106.Dx . 107.Bl -diag 108.It ips%d: failed to get adapter configuration data from device 109.It ips%d: failed to get drive configuration data from device 110.Pp 111Unable to obtain adapter or drive configuration. 112.It ips%d iobuf error 113.Pp 114A buffer input/output error has occurred. 115.Bq Er ENXIO 116.El 117.Ss General adapter errors: 118.Bl -diag 119.It Attaching bus failed 120.Pp 121This message is undocumented. 122.It WARNING: command timeout. Adapter is in toaster mode, resetting 123.Pp 124A command timeout has caused the adapter to be reset. 125.It AIEE! adapter reset failed, giving up and going home! Have a nice day 126.Pp 127An error occurred while attempting to reset the adapter. 128.It unable to get adapter configuration 129.It unable to get drive configuration 130.Pp 131There was an error when attempting to get configuration information. 132.It Adapter error during initialization. 133.It adapter initialization failed 134.Pp 135There was an error while attempting to initialize the adapter. 136.It adapter failed config check 137.It adapter clear failed 138.Pp 139There was an error while checking the adapter. 140.It device is disabled 141.Pp 142The adapter is disabled. 143.It resource allocation failed 144.It irq allocation failed 145.It irq setup failed 146.Pp 147The driver was unable to allocate resources for the device. 148.El 149.Ss Error messages due to DMA: 150.Bl -diag 151.It can't alloc command dma tag 152.It can't alloc SG dma tag 153.It can't alloc dma tag for statue queue 154.It dmamap failed 155.Pp 156Failure to map or allocate DMA resources. 157.El 158.Ss Cache, buffer, and command errors: 159.Bl -diag 160.It failed to initialize command buffers 161.It no mem for command slots! 162.Pp 163The 164.Nm 165driver will return 166.Bq Er ENOMEM 167in such cases. 168.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't flush cache! 169.It ERROR: cache flush command failed! 170.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't update nvram 171.It ERROR: nvram update command failed! 172.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! 173.It ERROR: cache sync command failed! 174.It ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! 175.It ERROR: etable command failed! 176.El 177.Sh COMPATIBILITY 178Unlike many of the other 179.Tn SCSI 180devices in 181.Dx , 182the 183.Nm 184driver does not use the 185.Xr cam 4 186.Tn SCSI 187subsystem. 188.Sh SEE ALSO 189.Xr aac 4 , 190.Xr ch 4 , 191.Xr da 4 , 192.Xr mfi 4 , 193.Xr sysctl 8 194.Sh AUTHORS 195The 196.Nm 197driver was written by 198.An -nosplit 199.An David Jefferys 200and 201.An Scott Long Aq Mt scottl@FreeBSD.org . 202.Pp 203This manual page was written by 204.An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 205