natacontrol.8

.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2002 Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
.\" are met:
.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\"
.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD: src/sbin/atacontrol/atacontrol.8,v 1.28 2005/11/18 10:32:09 ru Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 23, 2013
.Dt NATACONTROL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm natacontrol
.Nd NATA device driver control program
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Aq Ar command
.Ar args
.Pp
.Nm
.Ic attach
.Ar channel
.Nm
.Ic detach
.Ar channel
.Nm
.Ic reinit
.Ar channel
.Nm
.Ic create
.Ar type Oo Ar interleave Oc Ar disk0 ... diskN
.Nm
.Ic delete
.Ar raid
.Nm
.Ic addspare
.Ar raid disk
.Nm
.Ic rebuild
.Ar raid
.Nm
.Ic status
.Ar raid
.Nm
.Ic mode
.Ar device
.Nm
.Ic info
.Ar channel
.Nm
.Ic cap
.Ar device
.Nm
.Ic feature
.Ar device acoustic soundsupplevel
.Nm
.Ic feature
.Ar device apm apmlevel
.Nm
.Ic list
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is a control program that provides the user access and control to the
.Dx
.Xr nata 4
subsystem.
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility
can cause severe system crashes and loss of data if used improperly.
Please
exercise caution when using this command!
.Pp
The
.Ar channel
argument is the ATA channel device (e.g., ata0) on which to operate.
The following commands are supported:
.Bl -tag -width "rebuild"
.It Ic attach
Attach an ATA
.Ar channel .
Devices on the channel are probed and attached as
is done on boot.
.It Ic detach
Detach an ATA
.Ar channel .
Devices on the channel are removed from the kernel,
and all outstanding transfers etc.\& are returned back to the system marked
as failed.
.It Ic reinit
Reinitialize an ATA
.Ar 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.
.It Ic create
Create a
.Ar type
ATA RAID.
The type can be
.Cm RAID0
(stripe),
.Cm RAID1
(mirror),
.Cm RAID0+1 ,
.Cm SPAN
or
.Cm JBOD .
In case the RAID has a
.Cm RAID0
component,
the
.Ar interleave
must be specified in number of sectors.
The RAID will be created
of the individual disks named
.Bk -words
.Ar disk0 ... diskN .
.Ek
.Pp
Although the
.Xr nata 4
driver allows for creating an ATA RAID on disks with any controller,
there are restrictions.
It is only possible to boot on an array if it is either located on a
.Dq real
ATA RAID controller like
the Promise or Highpoint controllers, or if the RAID declared is of
.Cm RAID1
or
.Cm SPAN
type; in case of a
.Cm SPAN ,
the partition to boot must
reside on the first disk in the SPAN.
.It Ic delete
Delete a RAID array on a RAID capable ATA controller.
.It Ic addspare
Add a spare disk to an existing RAID.
.It Ic rebuild
Rebuild a RAID1 array on a RAID capable ATA controller.
.It Ic status
Get the status of an ATA RAID.
.It Ic mode
Without the mode argument, the current transfer modes of the
device are printed.
If the mode argument is given, the
.Xr nata 4
driver is asked to change the transfer mode to the one given.
The
.Xr nata 4
driver will reject modes that are not supported by the hardware.
Modes are given like
.Dq Li PIO3 ,
.Dq Li udma2 ,
.Dq Li udma100 ,
case does not matter.
.Pp
Currently supported modes are:
.Cm PIO0 , PIO1 , PIO2 , PIO3 , PIO4 ,
.Cm WDMA2 ,
.Cm UDMA2
(alias
.Cm UDMA33 ) ,
.Cm UDMA4
(alias
.Cm UDMA66 ) ,
.Cm UDMA5
(alias
.Cm UDMA100 )
and
.Cm UDMA6
(alias
.Cm UDMA133 ) .
The device name and manufacture/version strings are shown.
.It Ic cap
Show detailed info about the device on
.Ar device .
.It Ic feature
Set disk drive features.
Currently,
.Ar acoustic
and
.Ar apm
features are supported.
.Bl -tag -width "acoustic"
.It Ar acoustic soundsupplevel
Controls the disk drive Acoustic Management level.
The
.Ar soundsupplevel
may be set to
.Cm off
which will turn off acoustic management,
.Cm maxperf
to optimize for maximum performance,
.Cm maxquiet
to optimize for maximum quiet, or a numeric level
from 0 to 124.
The higher the numeric level, the higher the
theoretical sound level emitted from the drive.
Note that few devices support this command and even fewer will allow the
range of levels supported.
.It Ar apm apmlevel
Sets the disk drive Advanced Power Management (APM) level.
This command is generally used on laptop (notebook) hard disks to control
the power level consumed by the drive (at the expense of performance).
.Pp
The
.Ar apmlevel
may be set to one of:
.Cm off
(turn off APM),
.Cm maxperf
or
.Cm minpower
(optimize for maximum performance or minimum power, respectively), or
a numeric level which can be 0 to 127 inclusive indicating an increasing
level of performance over power savings.
The numeric levels may be prefixed by
.Cm s
which will allow the drive to include suspension as part of the
power savings.
Note that not all hard drives will support the
.Cm off
command, and that the number of incremental power savings levels
do not typically have as wide of a range as this command will
support.
.El
.It Ic info
Show info about the attached devices on the
.Ar channel .
.It Ic list
Show info about all attached devices on all active controllers.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
To get information on devices attached to a channel,
use the command line:
.Pp
.Dl "natacontrol info ata0"
.Pp
To see the devices' current access modes, use the command line:
.Pp
.Dl "natacontrol mode ad0"
.Pp
which results in the modes of the devices being displayed as a string
like this:
.Pp
.Dl "current mode = UDMA100"
.Pp
You can set the mode with
.Nm
and a string like the above,
for example:
.Pp
.Dl "natacontrol mode ad0 PIO4"
.Pp
The new modes are set as soon as the
.Nm
command returns.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr nata 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Fx 4.6
and was imported into
.Dx 1.7 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
utility was written by
.An S\(/oren Schmidt
.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .
.Pp
This manual page was written by
.An S\(/oren Schmidt
.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .