ATACONTROL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual ATACONTROL(8)NAMEatacontrol — ATA device driver control program
SYNOPSISatacontrol ⟨command⟩ args
atacontrol attach channel
atacontrol detach channel
atacontrol reinit channel
atacontrol create type [interleave] disk0 ... diskN
atacontrol delete raid
atacontrol rebuild raid
atacontrol status raid
atacontrol mode channel [mastermode slavemode]
atacontrol info channel
atacontrol cap channel device
atacontrol enclosure channel device
atacontrol list
DESCRIPTION
The atacontrol utility is a control program that provides the user access
and control to the DragonFly ata(4) subsystem.
The atacontrol utility can cause severe system crashes and loss of data
if used improperly. Please exercise caution when using this command!
The channel argument is the number of the ATA channel on which to oper‐
ate. The following commands are supported:
attach Attach an ATA channel. Devices on the channel are probed and
attached as is done on boot.
detach Detach an ATA channel. Devices on the channel are removed from
the kernel, and all outstanding transfers etc. are returned back
to the system marked as failed.
reinit Reinitialize an ATA channel. Both devices on the channel are
reset and initialized to the parameters the ATA driver has
stored internally. Devices that have gone bad and no longer
respond to the probe, or devices that have physically been
removed, are removed from the kernel. Likewise are devices that
show up during a reset, probed and attached.
create Create a type ATA RAID. The type can be RAID0 (stripe), RAID1
(mirror), RAID0+1 or SPAN (JBOD). In case the RAID has a RAID0
component, the interleave must be specified in number of sec‐
tors. The RAID will be created of the individual disks named
disk0 ... diskN.
Although the ATA driver allows for creating an ATA RAID on disks
with any controller, there are restrictions. It is only possi‐
ble to boot on an array if it is either located on a “real” ATA
RAID controller like the Promise or Highpoint controllers, or if
the RAID declared is of RAID1 or SPAN type; in case of a SPAN,
the partition to boot must reside on the first disk in the SPAN.
delete Delete a RAID array on a RAID capable ATA controller.
rebuild Rebuild a RAID1 array on a RAID capable ATA controller.
status Get the status of an ATA RAID.
mode Without the two mode arguments, the current transfer modes of
both devices are printed. If the mode arguments are given, the
ATA driver is asked to change the transfer modes to those given.
The ATA driver will reject modes that are not supported by the
hardware. Modes are given like “PIO3”, “udma2”, “udma100”, case
does not matter. If one of the devices mode should not be
changed, use a nonexisting mode as argument (i.e. “XXX”), and
the mode will remain unchanged.
Currently supported modes are: BIOSDMA, PIO0 (alias BIOSPIO),
PIO1, PIO2, PIO3, PIO4, WDMA2, UDMA2 (alias UDMA33), UDMA4
(alias UDMA66), UDMA5 (alias UDMA100) and UDMA6 (alias UDMA133).
info Show info about the attached devices on the channel. The device
name and manufacture/version strings are shown.
cap Show detailed info about the device on channel device where
device is 0 for master and 1 for slave.
enclosure
Show detailed info about the enclosure on channel device where
device is 0 for master and 1 for slave. Fan RPM speed, enclo‐
sure temperature, 5V and 12V levels are shown.
list Show info about all attached devices on all active controllers.
EXAMPLES
To see the devices' current access modes, use the command line:
atacontrol mode 0
which results in the modes of the devices being displayed as a string
like this:
Master = WDMA2
Slave = PIO4
This means that ata0-master is in DMA mode, ata0-slave is in PIO mode,
and so forth. You can set the mode with atacontrol and a string like the
above, for example:
atacontrol mode 0 PIO4 PIO4
The new modes are set as soon as the atacontrol command returns.
SEE ALSOata(4)HISTORY
The atacontrol utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.6.
AUTHORS
The atacontrol utility was written by Søren Schmidt ⟨sos@FreeBSD.org⟩.
This manual page was written by Søren Schmidt ⟨sos@FreeBSD.org⟩.
BSD May 17, 2001 BSD
