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28.Dd April 10, 2000
29.Dt TWE 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm twe
33.Nd 3ware Escalade ATA RAID adapter driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd device pci
36.Cd device twe
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the Escalade 3W-5x00 and 3W-6x00 series
41of ATA RAID controllers.
42These devices support 2, 4 or 8 ATA disk drives
43and provide RAID0 (striping) and RAID1 (mirroring) functionality.
44.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
45.Ss Controller initialisation phase
46.Bl -diag
47.It twe%d: microcontroller not ready
48.Pp
49The controller's onboard CPU is not reporting that it is ready;
50this may be due to either a board or system failure.
51Initialisation has failed.
52.It twe%d: no attention interrupt
53.It twe%d: can't drain AEN queue
54.It twe%d: reset not reported
55.It twe%d: controller errors detected
56.It twe%d: can't drain response queue
57.It twe%d: reset %d failed, trying again
58.Pp
59The controller is not responding correctly to
60the driver's attempts to reset and initialise it.
61This process is retried several times.
62.It twe%d: can't initialise controller, giving up
63.Pp
64Several attempts to reset and initialise the controller have failed;
65initialisation has failed
66and the driver will not attach to this controller.
67.El
68.Ss Driver initialisation/shutdown phase
69.Bl -diag
70.It twe%d: register window not available
71.It twe%d: can't allocate register window
72.It twe%d: can't allocate parent DMA tag
73.It twe%d: can't allocate interrupt
74.It twe%d: can't set up interrupt
75.It twe%d: can't establish configuration hook
76.Pp
77A resource allocation error occurred while initialising the driver;
78initialisation has failed
79and the driver will not attach to this controller.
80.It twe%d: can't detect attached units
81.Pp
82Fetching the list of attached units failed; initialisation has failed.
83.It twe%d: error fetching capacity for unit %d
84.It twe%d: error fetching state for unit %d
85.It twe%d: error fetching descriptor size for unit %d
86.It twe%d: error fetching descriptor for unit %d
87.It twe%d: device_add_child failed
88.It twe%d: bus_generic_attach returned %d
89.Pp
90Creation of the disk devices failed, either due to communications
91problems with the adapter or due to resource shortage;
92attachment of one or more units may have been aborted.
93.El
94.Ss Operational phase
95.Bl -diag
96.It twe%d: command completed - %s
97.El
98.Pp
99A command was reported completed with a warning by the controller.
100The warning may be one of:
101.Bl -diag
102.It redundant/inconsequential request ignored
103.It failed to write zeroes to LBA 0
104.It failed to profile TwinStor zones
105.El
106.Bl -diag
107.It twe%d: command failed - %s
108.El
109.Pp
110A command was reported as failed by the controller.
111The failure message may be one of:
112.Bl -diag
113.It aborted due to system command or reconfiguration
114.It aborted
115.It access error
116.It access violation
117.It device failure
118.It controller error
119.It timed out
120.It invalid unit number
121.It unit not available
122.It undefined opcode
123.It request incompatible with unit
124.It invalid request
125.It firmware error, reset requested
126.Pp
127The command will be returned to the operating system after a
128fatal error.
129.El
130.Bl -diag
131.It twe%d: command failed submission - controller wedged
132.Pp
133A command could not be delivered to the controller because
134the controller is unresponsive.
135.It twe%d: AEN: <%s>
136.El
137.Pp
138The controller has reported a change in status using an AEN
139(Asynchronous Event Notification).
140The following AENs may be reported:
141.Bl -diag
142.It queue empty
143.It soft reset
144.It degraded mirror
145.It controller error
146.It rebuild fail
147.It rebuild done
148.It incomplete unit
149.It initialisation done
150.It unclean shutdown detected
151.It drive timeout
152.It drive error
153.It rebuild started
154.It aen queue full
155.Pp
156AENs are also queued internally for use by management tools.
157.El
158.Bl -diag
159.It twe%d: error polling for signalled AENs
160.Pp
161The controller has reported
162that one or more status messages are ready for the driver,
163but attempting to fetch one of these has returned an error.
164.It twe%d: AEN queue overflow, lost AEN <%s>
165.Pp
166A status message was retrieved from the controller,
167but there is no more room to queue it in the driver.
168The message is lost (but will be printed to the console).
169.It twe%d: missing expected status bits %s
170.It twe%d: unexpected status bits %s
171.Pp
172A check of the controller's status bits
173indicates an unexpected condition.
174.It twe%d: host interrupt
175.Pp
176The controller has signalled a host interrupt.
177This serves an unknown purpose and is ignored.
178.It twe%d: command interrupt
179.Pp
180The controller has signalled a command interrupt.
181This is not used, and will be disabled.
182.It twe%d: controller reset in progress...
183.Pp
184The controller is being reset by the driver.
185Typically this is done when the driver has determined that the
186controller is in an unrecoverable state.
187.It twe%d: can't reset controller, giving up
188.Pp
189The driver has given up on resetting the controller.
190No further I/O will be handled.
191.It controller reset done, %d commands restarted
192.Pp
193The controller was successfully reset,
194and outstanding commands were restarted.
195.El
196.Sh AUTHORS
197The
198.Nm
199driver and manpage were written by
200.An Michael Smith
201.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .
202.Sh BUGS
203The controller cannot handle I/O transfers
204that are not aligned to a 512-byte boundary.
205In order to support raw device access from user-space,
206the driver will perform alignment fixup on non-aligned data.
207This process is inefficient,
208and thus in order to obtain best performance
209user-space applications accessing the device
210should do so with aligned buffers.
211