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.Dd January 2, 2008
.Dt BIO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bio
.Nd Block IO ioctl tunnel pseudo-device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "pseudo-device bio"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides userland applications
.Xr ioctl 2
access to devices otherwise not found as
.Pa /dev
nodes.
The
.Pa /dev/bio
device node operates by delegating ioctl
calls to a requested device driver.
Only drivers which have registered with the
.Nm
device can be accessed via this interface.
.Pp
The following device drivers register with
.Nm
for volume management:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width ciss(4)XX -offset indent -compact
.\" .It Xr ami 4
.\" American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID PATA/SATA/SCSI RAID controller
.It Xr arcmsr 4
Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller
.\" .It Xr ciss 4
.\" Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID controller
.It Xr mfi 4
LSI Logic \*[Am] Dell MegaRAID SAS RAID controller
.El
.Pp
The following ioctl calls apply to the
.Nm bio
device:
.Bl -tag -width BIOCCAPABILITIES
.It Dv BIOCLOCATE
Locate a named device and give back a cookie to the application
for subsequent ioctl calls.
The cookie is used to tunnel further ioctls to the right device.
.It Dv BIOCINQ
Retrieve number of volumes and physical disks for a specific device.
.It Dv BIOCDISK
Retrieve detailed information for the specified physical disk.
Information returned can include status, size, channel, target, lun,
vendor name, serial number and processor device (ses or safte).
.It Dv BIOCDISK_NOVOL
It's just the same than
.Em BIOCDISK
but this doesn't require the disks to be in volume sets, so this
applies to any physical disk connected to the controller.
.Pp
Note: this ioctl might not be supported on all hardware.
.It Dv BIOCVOL
Retrieve detailed information for the specified volume.
Information returned can include status, size, RAID level, number of disks,
device name association (sd?) and vendor name.
.It Dv BIOCALARM
Control the alarm beeper on the device.
Supported states are: disable alarm, enable alarm, silence alarm, status and
test alarm.
.Pp
Note:  These options might not be supported on all hardware.
.It Dv BIOCBLINK
Blink an LED of the specified physical disk.
Supported blink states are: blink LED, unblink LED and blink alarm LED.
.Pp
Note:  This option is only supported if the disk is governed by ses(4) or
safte(4) and the hardware supports hardware blinking.
.It Dv BIOCSETSTATE
Alter the state of specified physical disk.
Supported states are: create/remove hot-spare, create/remove pass through
disk, start/stop consistency check in a volume, online disk and offline disk.
.Pp
Note:  These options might not be supported on all hardware.
.It Dv BIOCVOLOPS
For operations in volume sets. It's able to create and remove a volume
set in a supported RAID controller.
.Pp
Note: this ioctl might not be supported on all hardware.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/bio -compact
.It Pa /dev/bio
ioctl tunnel device
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ioctl 2 ,
.Xr bioctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 3.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Niklas Hallqvist Aq niklas@openbsd.org .
The API was written by
.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org 
and was extended even more for
.Nx
by
.An Juan Romero Pardines Aq xtraeme@netbsd.org .