viaide(4) [netbsd man page]
VIAIDE(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual VIAIDE(4) NAME
viaide -- AMD, NVIDIA and VIA IDE disk controllers driver SYNOPSIS
viaide* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000 options PCIIDE_AMD756_ENABLEDMA DESCRIPTION
The viaide driver supports the following IDE controllers and provides the interface with the hardware for the ata driver: - Advanced Micro Devices AMD-756, 766, 768 and CS5536 IDE Controllers - NVIDIA nForce, nForce2, nForce2 400, nForce3, nForce3 250, nForce4, MCP04, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67 IDE and SATA Controllers. - VIA Technologies VT82C586, VT82C586A, VT82C596A, VT82C686A, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237/VT8237R IDE Controllers, VT6421 Serial RAID Controller and CX700 IDE Controller. The 0x0002 flag forces the viaide driver to disable DMA on chipsets for which DMA would normally be enabled. This can be used as a debugging aid, or to work around problems where the IDE controller is wired up to the system incorrectly. SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4) NOTES
Drives on the VT6421 Serial RAID Controller can only be accessed after they have been configured into RAID or JBOD sets via its BIOS. It is also inaptly named as it has both SATA and PATA interfaces. BUGS
The AMD756 chip revision D2 has a bug affecting DMA (but not Ultra-DMA) modes. The workaround documented by AMD is to not use DMA on any drive which does not support Ultra-DMA modes. This does not appear to be necessary on all drives, the PCIIDE_AMD756_ENABLEDMA option can be used to force multiword DMA on the buggy revisions. Multiword DMA can eventually be disabled on a per-drive basis with config flags, see wd(4). The bug, if triggered, will cause a total system hang. The timings used for the PIO and DMA modes for controllers listed above are for a PCI bus running at 30 or 33 MHz. This driver may not work properly on overclocked systems. BSD
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ATA(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ATA(4) NAME
ata, ar, acd, ad, afd, ast -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver SYNOPSIS
For ISA based ATA/ATAPI support: device isa device ata In /boot/device.hints: hint.ata.0.at="isa" hint.ata.0.port="0x1f0" hint.ata.0.irq="14" hint.ata.1.at="isa" hint.ata.1.port="0x170" hint.ata.1.irq="15" For PC98 based ATA/ATAPI support: device isa device ata In /boot/device.hints: hint.atacbus.0.at="isa" hint.atacbus.0.port="0x640" hint.atacbus.0.irq="9" For PCI based ATA/ATAPI support: device pci device ata To support ATA compliant disk drives: device atadisk To support ATA software RAID's: device ataraid To support ATAPI CDROM, DVD and CD/DVD burner drives: device atapicd To support ATAPI floppy drives: device atapifd To support ATAPI tape drives: device atapist To turn ata(4) subsystem controller drivers into cam(4) interface modules (disables all native ata(4) APIs and periperal drivers): options ATA_CAM The following tunables are settable from the loader: hw.ata.ata_dma set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA). hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin set to 0 to disable the 80pin cable check (default is 1, check the cable) hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (default is DMA). hw.ata.wc set to 1 to enable Write Caching, 0 to disable (default is enabled). WARNING: can cause data loss on power failures and crashes. hint.atapci.X.msi set to 1 to allow Message Signalled Interrupts (MSI) to be used by specified PCI ATA controller, if supported. hint.ata.X.devX.mode limits initial ATA mode for specified device on specified channel. hint.ata.X.mode limits initial ATA mode for every device on specified channel. hint.ata.X.pm_level controls SATA interface Power Management for specified channel, allowing to save some power by the cost of additional command latency. Pos- sible values: 0 interface Power Management is disabled, default value. 1 device is allowed to initiate PM state change, host is passive. 2 host initiates PARTIAL PM state transition every time port becomes idle. 3 host initiates SLUMBER PM state transition every time port becomes idle. Modes 2 and 3 are implemented only for AHCI driver now. DESCRIPTION
The ata driver provides access to ATA (IDE) and SerialATA disk drives, ATAPI CDROM/DVD drives, ZIP/LS120 ATAPI drives and ATAPI tape drives connected to controllers according to the ATA/ATAPI standards. The currently supported ATA/SATA controller chips are: Acard: ATP850P, ATP860A, ATP860R, ATP865A, ATP865R. ALI: M5228, M5229, M5281, M5283, M5287, M5288, M5289. AMD: AMD756, AMD766, AMD768, AMD8111, CS5536. ATI: IXP200, IXP300, IXP400, IXP600, IXP700, IXP800. CMD: CMD646, CMD646U2, CMD648, CMD649. Cypress: Cypress 82C693. Cyrix: Cyrix 5530. HighPoint: HPT302, HPT366, HPT368, HPT370, HPT371, HPT372, HPT372N, HPT374. Intel: 6300ESB, 31244, PIIX, PIIX3, PIIX4, ESB2, ICH, ICH0, ICH2, ICH3, ICH4, ICH5, ICH6, ICH7, ICH8, ICH9, ICH10, SCH, PCH. ITE: IT8211F, IT8212F, IT8213F. JMicron: JMB360, JMB361, JMB363, JMB365, JMB366, JMB368. Marvell 88SX5040, 88SX5041, 88SX5080, 88SX5081, 88SX6041, 88SX6042, 88SX6081, 88SX6101, 88SX6102, 88SX6111, 88SX6121, 88SX6141, 88SX6145, 88SX7042. National: SC1100. NetCell: NC3000, NC5000. nVidia: nForce, nForce2, nForce2 MCP, nForce3, nForce3 MCP, nForce3 Pro, nForce4, MCP51, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP67, MCP73, MCP77, MCP79, MCP89. Promise: PDC20246, PDC20262, PDC20263, PDC20265, PDC20267, PDC20268, PDC20269, PDC20270, PDC20271, PDC20275, PDC20276, PDC20277, PDC20318, PDC20319, PDC20371, PDC20375, PDC20376, PDC20377, PDC20378, PDC20379, PDC20571, PDC20575, PDC20579, PDC20580, PDC20617, PDC20618, PDC20619, PDC20620, PDC20621, PDC20622, PDC40518, PDC40519, PDC40718, PDC40719. ServerWorks: HT1000, ROSB4, CSB5, CSB6, K2, Frodo4, Frodo8. Silicon Image: SiI0680, SiI3112, SiI3114, SiI3124, SiI3132, SiI3512. SiS: SIS180, SIS181, SIS182, SIS5513, SIS530, SIS540, SIS550, SIS620, SIS630, SIS630S, SIS633, SIS635, SIS730, SIS733, SIS735, SIS745, SIS961, SIS962, SIS963, SIS964, SIS965. VIA: VT6410, VT6420, VT6421, VT82C586, VT82C586B, VT82C596, VT82C596B, VT82C686, VT82C686A, VT82C686B, VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8233C, VT8235, VT8237, VT8237A, VT8237S, VT8251, CX700, VX800, VX855, VX900. Unknown ATA chipsets are supported in PIO modes, and if the standard busmaster DMA registers are present and contain valid setup, DMA is also enabled, although the max mode is limited to UDMA33, as it is not known what the chipset can do and how to program it. The ata driver can change the transfer mode and various other parameters when the system is up and running. See atacontrol(8). The ata driver sets the maximum transfer mode supported by the hardware as default. However the ata driver sometimes warns: ``DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device''. This means that the ata driver has detected that the required 80 conductor cable is not present or could not be detected properly, or that one of the devices on the channel only accepts up to UDMA2/ATA33. The hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin tunable can be set to 0 to disable this check. Unknown ATAPI devices are initialized to DMA mode if the hw.ata.atapi_dma tunable is set to 1 and they support at least UDMA33 transfers. Otherwise they are set to PIO mode because severe DMA problems are common even if the device capabilities indicate support. You can always try to set DMA mode on an ATAPI device using atacontrol(8), but be aware that your hardware might not support it and can potentially hang the entire system causing data loss. FILES
/dev/ad* ATA disk device nodes /dev/ar* ATA RAID device nodes /dev/acd* ATAPI CD-ROM device nodes /dev/afd* ATAPI floppy drive device nodes /dev/ast* ATAPI tape drive device nodes /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC sample generic kernel config file for ata based systems NOTES
Please remember that in order to use UDMA4/ATA66 and above modes you must use 80 conductor cables. Please assure that ribbon cables are no longer than 45cm. In case of rounded ATA cables, the length depends on the quality of the cables. SATA cables can be up to 1m long accord- ing to the specification. Static device numbering (enabled with the ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option) reserves a number for each possibly connected disk, even when not present. This is useful in hotswap scenarios where disks should always show up as the same numbered device, and not depend on attach order. Native Command Queuing (NCQ) on SATA drives is not yet supported. SEE ALSO
ahci(4), cam(4), ataraid(4), atacontrol(8), burncd(8), siis(4) HISTORY
The ata driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0. AUTHORS
Soren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
July 3, 2010 BSD