.\" Copyright (c) 1996 .\" Julian Elischer . 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/share/man/man4/da.4,v 1.22.2.7 2001/10/01 13:07:23 dd Exp $ .\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man4/da.4,v 1.7 2008/05/02 02:05:05 swildner Exp $ .\" .Dd October 15, 1998 .Dt DA 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm da .Nd SCSI Direct Access device driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd device da .Cd device da1 at scbus0 target 4 unit 0 .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for all .Tn SCSI devices of the direct access class that are attached to the system through a supported .Tn SCSI Host Adapter. The direct access class includes disk, magneto-optical, and solid-state devices. .Pp A .Tn SCSI Host adapter must also be separately configured into the system before a .Tn SCSI direct access device can be configured. .Sh PARTITIONING The .Nm driver allows the disk to have two levels of partitioning. One layer, called the .Dq slice layer , is used to separate the .Dx areas of the disk from areas used by other operating systems. The second layer is the native .Bx 4.4 partitioning scheme, .Xr disklabel 5 , which is used to subdivide the .Dx slices into areas for individual filesystems and swap spaces. For more information, see .Xr fdisk 8 and .Xr disklabel 8 , respectively. .Pp If an uninitialized disk is opened, the slice table will be initialized with a fictitious .Dx slice spanning the entire disk. Similarly, if an uninitialized (or .No non- Ns Dx ) slice is opened, its disklabel will be initialized with parameters returned by the drive and a single .Sq Li c partition encompassing the entire slice. .Sh CACHE EFFECTS Many direct access devices are equipped with read and/or write caches. Parameters affecting the device's cache are stored in mode page 8, the caching control page. Mode pages can be examined and modified via the .Xr camcontrol 8 utility. .Pp The read cache is used to store data from device-initiated read ahead operations as well as frequently used data. The read cache is transparent to the user and can be enabled without any adverse effect. Most devices with a read cache come from the factory with it enabled. The read cache can be disabled by setting the .Tn RCD (Read Cache Disable) bit in the caching control mode page. .Pp The write cache can greatly decrease the latency of write operations and allows the device to reorganize writes to increase efficiency and performance. This performance gain comes at a price. Should the device lose power while its cache contains uncommitted write operations, these writes will be lost. The effect of a loss of write transactions on a file system is non-deterministic and can cause corruption. Most devices age write transactions to limit vulnerability to a few transactions recently reported as complete, but it is none-the-less recommended that systems with write cache enabled devices reside on an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). The .Nm device driver ensures that the cache and media are synchronized upon final close of the device or an unexpected shutdown (panic) event. This ensures that it is safe to disconnect power once the operating system has reported that it has halted. The write cache can be enabled by setting the .Tn WCE (Write Cache Enable) bit in the caching control mode page. .Sh TAGGED QUEUING The .Nm device driver will take full advantage of the SCSI feature known as tagged queueing. Tagged queueing allows the device to process multiple transactions concurrently, often re-ordering them to reduce the number and length of seeks. To ensure that transactions to distant portions of the media, which may be deferred indefinitely by servicing requests nearer the current head position, are completed in a timely fashion, an ordered tagged transaction is sent every 15 seconds during continuous device operation. .Sh BAD BLOCK RECOVERY Direct Access devices have the capability of mapping out portions of defective media. Media recovery parameters are located in mode page 1, the Read-Write Error Recovery mode page. The most important media remapping features are 'Auto Write Reallocation' and 'Auto Read Reallocation' which can be enabled via the AWRE and ARRE bits, respectively, of the Read-Write Error Recovery page. Many devices do not ship from the factory with these feature enabled. Mode pages can be examined and modified via the .Xr camcontrol 8 utility. .Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION It is only necessary to explicitly configure one .Nm device; data structures are dynamically allocated as disks are found on the .Tn SCSI bus. .Sh IOCTLS The following .Xr ioctl 2 calls apply to .Tn SCSI disks as well as to other disks. They are defined in the header file .In sys/disklabel.h . .Bl -tag -width ".Dv DIOCSDINFO" .It Dv DIOCSBAD Usually used to set up a bad-block mapping system on the disk. .Tn SCSI drives incorporate their own bad-block mapping so this command is not implemented. .It Dv DIOCGDINFO Read, from the kernel, the in-core copy of the disklabel for the drive. This may be a fictitious disklabel if the drive has never been initialized, in which case it will contain information read from the .Tn SCSI inquiry commands. .It Dv DIOCSDINFO Give the driver a new disklabel to use. The driver .Em will not write the new disklabel to the disk. .It Dv DIOCWLABEL Enable or disable the driver's software write protect of the disklabel on the disk. .It Dv DIOCWDINFO Give the driver a new disklabel to use. The driver .Em will write the new disklabel to the disk. .El .Sh NOTES If a device becomes invalidated (media is removed, device becomes unresponsive) the disklabel and information held within the kernel about the device will be invalidated. To avoid corruption of a newly inserted piece of media or a replacement device, all accesses to the device will be discarded until the last file descriptor referencing the old device is closed. During this period, all new open attempts will be rejected. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /dev/rsdXXXXX -compact .It Pa /dev/rda Ns Ar u raw mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , accessed as an unpartitioned device .Sm off .It Pa /dev/da Ar u Pa s Ar n .Sm on block mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , slice .Ar n , accessed as an unpartitioned device .Sm off .It Pa /dev/rda Ar u Pa s Ar n .Sm on raw mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , slice .Ar n , accessed as an unpartitioned device .It Pa /dev/da Ns Ar u Ns Ar p block mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , first .Dx slice, partition .Ar p .It Pa /dev/rda Ns Ar u Ns Ar p raw mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , first .Dx slice, partition .Ar p .Sm off .It Xo .Pa /dev/da .Ar u .Pa s .Ar n .Ar p .Xc .Sm on block mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , .Ar n Ns th slice, partition .Ar p .Sm off .It Xo .Pa /dev/rda .Ar u .Pa s .Ar n .Ar p .Xc .Sm on raw mode .Tn SCSI disk unit .Ar u , .Ar n Ns th slice, partition .Ar p .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS None. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ad 4 , .Xr disklabel 5 , .Xr disklabel 8 , .Xr fdisk 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver was written for the .Tn CAM .Tn SCSI subsystem by .An Justin T. Gibbs . Many ideas were gleaned from the .Nm sd device driver written and ported from .Tn Mach 2.5 by .An Julian Elischer . Support for slices was written by .An Bruce Evans .