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The .Tn UDA50 communicates with the host through a packet protocol known as the Mass Storage Control Protocol .Pq Tn MSCP . Consult the file .Aq Pa vax/mscp.h for a detailed description of this protocol. .Pp The .Nm uda driver is a typical block-device disk driver; see .Xr physio 4 for a description of block .Tn I/O . The script .Xr MAKEDEV 8 should be used to create the .Nm uda special files; should a special file need to be created by hand, consult .Xr mknod 8 . .Pp The .Dv MSCP_PARANOIA option enables runtime checking on all transfer completion responses from the controller. This increases disk .Tn I/O overhead and may be undesirable on slow machines, but is otherwise recommended. .Pp The first sector of each disk contains both a first-stage bootstrap program and a disk label containing geometry information and partition layouts (see .Xr disklabel 5 ) . This sector is normally write-protected, and disk-to-disk copies should avoid copying this sector. The label may be updated with .Xr disklabel 8 , which can also be used to write-enable and write-disable the sector. The next 15 sectors contain a second-stage bootstrap program. .Sh DISK SUPPORT During autoconfiguration, as well as when a drive is opened after all partitions are closed, the first sector of the drive is examined for a disk label. If a label is found, the geometry of the drive and the partition tables are taken from it. If no label is found, the driver configures the type of each drive when it is first encountered. A default partition table in the driver is used for each type of disk when a pack is not labelled. The origin and size (in sectors) of the default pseudo-disks on each drive are shown below. Not all partitions begin on cylinder boundaries, as on other drives, because previous drivers used one partition table for all drive types. Variants of the partition tables are common; check the driver and the file .Pa /etc/disktab .Pq Xr disktab 5 for other possibilities. .Pp Special file names begin with .Sq Li ra and .Sq Li rra for the block and character files respectively. The second component of the name, a drive unit number in the range of zero to seven, is represented by a .Sq Li ? in the disk layouts below. The last component of the name is the file system partition designated by a letter from .Sq Li a to .Sq Li h and which corresponds to a minor device number set: zero to seven, eight to 15, 16 to 23 and so forth for drive zero, drive two and drive three respectively, (see .Xr physio 4) . The location and size (in sectors) of the partitions: .Bl -column header diskx undefined length .Tn RA60 No partitions .Sy disk start length ra?a 0 15884 ra?b 15884 33440 ra?c 0 400176 ra?d 49324 82080 same as 4.2BSD ra?g ra?e 131404 268772 same as 4.2BSD ra?h ra?f 49324 350852 ra?g 242606 157570 ra?h 49324 193282 .Tn RA70 No partitions .Sy disk start length ra?a 0 15884 ra?b 15972 33440 ra?c 0 547041 ra?d 34122 15884 ra?e 357192 55936 ra?f 413457 133584 ra?g 341220 205821 ra?h 49731 29136 .Tn RA80 No partitions .Sy disk start length ra?a 0 15884 ra?b 15884 33440 ra?c 0 242606 ra?e 49324 193282 same as old Berkeley ra?g ra?f 49324 82080 same as 4.2BSD ra?g ra?g 49910 192696 ra?h 131404 111202 same as 4.2BSD .Tn RA81 No partitions .Sy disk start length ra?a 0 15884 ra?b 16422 66880 ra?c 0 891072 ra?d 375564 15884 ra?e 391986 307200 ra?f 699720 191352 ra?g 375564 515508 ra?h 83538 291346 .Tn RA81 No partitions with 4.2BSD-compatible partitions .Sy disk start length ra?a 0 15884 ra?b 16422 66880 ra?c 0 891072 ra?d 49324 82080 same as 4.2BSD ra?g ra?e 131404 759668 same as 4.2BSD ra?h ra?f 412490 478582 same as 4.2BSD ra?f ra?g 375564 515508 ra?h 83538 291346 .Tn RA82 No partitions .Sy disk start length ra?a 0 15884 ra?b 16245 66880 ra?c 0 1135554 ra?d 375345 15884 ra?e 391590 307200 ra?f 669390 466164 ra?g 375345 760209 ra?h 83790 291346 .El .Pp The ra?a partition is normally used for the root file system, the ra?b partition as a paging area, and the ra?c partition for pack-pack copying (it maps the entire disk). .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /dev/rra[0-9][a-f] -compact .It Pa /dev/ra[0-9][a-f] .It Pa /dev/rra[0-9][a-f] .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS .Bl -diag .It "panic: udaslave" No command packets were available while the driver was looking for disk drives. The controller is not extending enough credits to use the drives. .Pp .It "uda%d: no response to Get Unit Status request" A disk drive was found, but did not respond to a status request. This is either a hardware problem or someone pulling unit number plugs very fast. .Pp .It "uda%d: unit %d off line" While searching for drives, the controller found one that seems to be manually disabled. It is ignored. .Pp .It "uda%d: unable to get unit status" Something went wrong while trying to determine the status of a disk drive. This is followed by an error detail. .Pp .It uda%d: unit %d, next %d This probably never happens, but I wanted to know if it did. I have no idea what one should do about it. .Pp .It "uda%d: cannot handle unit number %d (max is %d)" The controller found a drive whose unit number is too large. Valid unit numbers are those in the range [0..7]. .Pp .It "ra%d: don't have a partition table for %s; using (s,t,c)=(%d,%d,%d)" The controller found a drive whose media identifier (e.g. `RA 25') does not have a default partition table. A temporary partition table containing only an `a' partition has been created covering the entire disk, which has the indicated numbers of sectors per track (s), tracks per cylinder (t), and total cylinders (c). Give the pack a label with the .Xr disklabel utility. .Pp .It "uda%d: uballoc map failed" Unibus resource map allocation failed during initialisation. This can only happen if you have 496 devices on a Unibus. .Pp .It uda%d: timeout during init The controller did not initialise within ten seconds. A hardware problem, but it sometimes goes away if you try again. .Pp .It uda%d: init failed, sa=%b The controller refused to initalise. .Pp .It uda%d: controller hung The controller never finished initialisation. Retrying may sometimes fix it. .Pp .It ra%d: drive will not come on line The drive will not come on line, probably because it is spun down. This should be preceded by a message giving details as to why the drive stayed off line. .Pp .It uda%d: still hung When the controller hangs, the driver occasionally tries to reinitialise it. This means it just tried, without success. .Pp .It panic: udastart: bp==NULL A bug in the driver has put an empty drive queue on a controller queue. .Pp .It uda%d: command ring too small If you increase .Dv NCMDL2 , you may see a performance improvement. (See .Pa /sys/vaxuba/uda.c . ) .Pp .It panic: udastart A drive was found marked for status or on-line functions while performing status or on-line functions. This indicates a bug in the driver. .Pp .It "uda%d: controller error, sa=0%o (%s)" The controller reported an error. The error code is printed in octal, along with a short description if the code is known (see the .%T UDA50 Maintenance Guide , .Tn DEC part number .Tn AA-M185B-TC , pp. 18-22). If this occurs during normal operation, the driver will reset it and retry pending .Tn I/O . If it occurs during configuration, the controller may be ignored. .Pp .It uda%d: stray intr The controller interrupted when it should have stayed quiet. The interrupt has been ignored. .Pp .It "uda%d: init step %d failed, sa=%b" The controller reported an error during the named initialisation step. The driver will retry initialisation later. .Pp .It uda%d: version %d model %d An informational message giving the revision level of the controller. .Pp .It uda%d: DMA burst size set to %d An informational message showing the .Tn DMA burst size, in words. .Pp .It panic: udaintr Indicates a bug in the generic .Tn MSCP code. .Pp .It uda%d: driver bug, state %d The driver has a bogus value for the controller state. Something is quite wrong. This is immediately followed by a `panic: udastate'. .Pp .It uda%d: purge bdp %d A benign message tracing BDP purges. I have been trying to figure out what BDP purges are for. You might want to comment out this call to log() in /sys/vaxuba/uda.c. .Pp .It uda%d: SETCTLRC failed: `detail' The Set Controller Characteristics command (the last part of the controller initialisation sequence) failed. The .Em detail message tells why. .Pp .It "uda%d: attempt to bring ra%d on line failed: `detail'" The drive could not be brought on line. The .Em detail message tells why. .Pp .It uda%d: ra%d: unknown type %d The type index of the named drive is not known to the driver, so the drive will be ignored. .Pp .It "ra%d: changed types! was %d now %d" A drive somehow changed from one kind to another, e.g., from an .Tn RA80 to an .Tn RA60 . The numbers printed are the encoded media identifiers (see .Ao Pa vax/mscp.h Ac for the encoding). The driver believes the new type. .Pp .It "ra%d: uda%d, unit %d, size = %d sectors" The named drive is on the indicated controller as the given unit, and has that many sectors of user-file area. This is printed during configuration. .Pp .It "uda%d: attempt to get status for ra%d failed: `detail'" A status request failed. The .Em detail message should tell why. .Pp .It ra%d: bad block report: %d The drive has reported the given block as bad. If there are multiple bad blocks, the drive will report only the first; in this case this message will be followed by `+ others'. Get .Tn DEC to forward the block with .Tn EVRLK . .Pp .It ra%d: serious exception reported I have no idea what this really means. .Pp .It panic: udareplace The controller reported completion of a .Tn REPLACE operation. The driver never issues any .Tn REPLACE Ns s , so something is wrong. .Pp .It panic: udabb The controller reported completion of bad block related .Tn I/O . The driver never issues any such, so something is wrong. .Pp .It uda%d: lost interrupt The controller has gone out to lunch, and is being reset to try to bring it back. .Pp .It panic: mscp_go: AEB_MAX_BP too small You defined .Dv AVOID_EMULEX_BUG and increased .Dv NCMDL2 and Emulex has new firmware. Raise .Dv AEB_MAX_BP or turn off .Dv AVOID_EMULEX_BUG . .Pp .It "uda%d: unit %d: unknown message type 0x%x ignored" The controller responded with a mysterious message type. See .Pa /sys/vax/mscp.h for a list of known message types. This is probably a controller hardware problem. .Pp .It "uda%d: unit %d out of range" The disk drive unit number (the unit plug) is higher than the maximum number the driver allows (currently 7). .Pp .It "uda%d: unit %d not configured, message ignored" The named disk drive has announced its presence to the controller, but was not, or cannot now be, configured into the running system. .Em Message is one of `available attention' (an `I am here' message) or `stray response op 0x%x status 0x%x' (anything else). .Pp .It ra%d: bad lbn (%d)? The drive has reported an invalid command error, probably due to an invalid block number. If the lbn value is very much greater than the size reported by the drive, this is the problem. It is probably due to an improperly configured partition table. Other invalid commands indicate a bug in the driver, or hardware trouble. .Pp .It ra%d: duplicate ONLINE ignored The drive has come on-line while already on-line. This condition can probably be ignored (and has been). .Pp .It ra%d: io done, but no buffer? Hardware trouble, or a bug; the drive has finished an .Tn I/O request, but the response has an invalid (zero) command reference number. .Pp .It "Emulex SC41/MS screwup: uda%d, got %d correct, then changed 0x%x to 0x%x" You turned on .Dv AVOID_EMULEX_BUG , and the driver successfully avoided the bug. The number of correctly-handled requests is reported, along with the expected and actual values relating to the bug being avoided. .Pp .It panic: unrecoverable Emulex screwup You turned on .Dv AVOID_EMULEX_BUG , but Emulex was too clever and avoided the avoidance. Try turning on .Dv MSCP_PARANOIA instead. .Pp .It uda%d: bad response packet ignored You turned on .Dv MSCP_PARANOIA , and the driver caught the controller in a lie. The lie has been ignored, and the controller will soon be reset (after a `lost' interrupt). This is followed by a hex dump of the offending packet. .Pp .It ra%d: bogus REPLACE end The drive has reported finishing a bad sector replacement, but the driver never issues bad sector replacement commands. The report is ignored. This is likely a hardware problem. .Pp .It "ra%d: unknown opcode 0x%x status 0x%x ignored" The drive has reported something that the driver cannot understand. Perhaps .Tn DEC has been inventive, or perhaps your hardware is ill. This is followed by a hex dump of the offending packet. .Pp .It "ra%d%c: hard error %sing fsbn %d [of %d-%d] (ra%d bn %d cn %d tn %d sn %d)." An unrecoverable error occurred during transfer of the specified filesystem block number(s), which are logical block numbers on the indicated partition. If the transfer involved multiple blocks, the block range is printed as well. The parenthesized fields list the actual disk sector number relative to the beginning of the drive, as well as the cylinder, track and sector number of the block. .Pp .It uda%d: %s error datagram The controller has reported some kind of error, either `hard' (unrecoverable) or `soft' (recoverable). If the controller is going on (attempting to fix the problem), this message includes the remark `(continuing)'. Emulex controllers wrongly claim that all soft errors are hard errors. This message may be followed by one of the following 5 messages, depending on its type, and will always be followed by a failure detail message (also listed below). .Bd -filled -offset indent .It memory addr 0x%x A host memory access error; this is the address that could not be read. .Pp .It "unit %d: level %d retry %d, %s %d" A typical disk error; the retry count and error recovery levels are printed, along with the block type (`lbn', or logical block; or `rbn', or replacement block) and number. If the string is something else, .Tn DEC has been clever, or your hardware has gone to Australia for vacation (unless you live there; then it might be in New Zealand, or Brazil). .Pp .It unit %d: %s %d Also a disk error, but an `SDI' error, whatever that is. (I doubt it has anything to do with Ronald Reagan.) This lists the block type (`lbn' or `rbn') and number. This is followed by a second message indicating a microprocessor error code and a front panel code. These latter codes are drive-specific, and are intended to be used by field service as an aid in locating failing hardware. The codes for RA81s can be found in the .%T RA81 Maintenance Guide , DEC order number AA-M879A-TC, in appendices E and F. .Pp .It "unit %d: small disk error, cyl %d" Yet another kind of disk error, but for small disks. (`That's what it says, guv'nor. Dunnask me what it means.') .Pp .It "unit %d: unknown error, format 0x%x" A mysterious error: the given format code is not known. .Ed .Pp The detail messages are as follows: .Bd -filled -offset indent .It success (%s) (code 0, subcode %d) Everything worked, but the controller thought it would let you know that something went wrong. No matter what subcode, this can probably be ignored. .Pp .It "invalid command (%s) (code 1, subcode %d)" This probably cannot occur unless the hardware is out; %s should be `invalid msg length', meaning some command was too short or too long. .Pp .It "command aborted (unknown subcode) (code 2, subcode %d)" This should never occur, as the driver never aborts commands. .Pp .It "unit offline (%s) (code 3, subcode %d)" The drive is offline, either because it is not around (`unknown drive'), stopped (`not mounted'), out of order (`inoperative'), has the same unit number as some other drive (`duplicate'), or has been disabled for diagnostics (`in diagnosis'). .Pp .It "unit available (unknown subcode) (code 4, subcode %d)" The controller has decided to report a perfectly normal event as an error. (Why?) .Pp .It "media format error (%s) (code 5, subcode %d)" The drive cannot be used without reformatting. The Format Control Table cannot be read (`fct unread - edc'), there is a bad sector header (`invalid sector header'), the drive is not set for 512-byte sectors (`not 512 sectors'), the drive is not formatted (`not formatted'), or the .Tn FCT has an uncorrectable .Tn ECC error (`fct ecc'). .Pp .It "write protected (%s) (code 6, subcode %d)" The drive is write protected, either by the front panel switch (`hardware') or via the driver (`software'). The driver never sets software write protect. .Pp .It "compare error (unknown subcode) (code 7, subcode %d)" A compare operation showed some sort of difference. The driver never uses compare operations. .Pp .It "data error (%s) (code 7, subcode %d)" Something went wrong reading or writing a data sector. A `forced error' is a software-asserted error used to mark a sector that contains suspect data. Rewriting the sector will clear the forced error. This is normally set only during bad block replacment, and the driver does no bad block replacement, so these should not occur. A `header compare' error probably means the block is shot. A `sync timeout' presumably has something to do with sector synchronisation. An `uncorrectable ecc' error is an ordinary data error that cannot be fixed via .Tn ECC logic. A `%d symbol ecc' error is a data error that can be (and presumably has been) corrected by the .Tn ECC logic. It might indicate a sector that is imperfect but usable, or that is starting to go bad. If any of these errors recur, the sector may need to be replaced. .Pp .It "host buffer access error (%s) (code %d, subcode %d)" Something went wrong while trying to copy data to or from the host (Vax). The subcode is one of `odd xfer addr', `odd xfer count', `non-exist. memory', or `memory parity'. The first two could be a software glitch; the last two indicate hardware problems. .It controller error (%s) (code %d, subcode %d) The controller has detected a hardware error in itself. A `serdes overrun' is a serialiser / deserialiser overrun; `edc' probably stands for `error detection code'; and `inconsistent internal data struct' is obvious. .Pp .It "drive error (%s) (code %d, subcode %d)" Either the controller or the drive has detected a hardware error in the drive. I am not sure what an `sdi command timeout' is, but these seem to occur benignly on occasion. A `ctlr detected protocol' error means that the controller and drive do not agree on a protocol; this could be a cabling problem, or a version mismatch. A `positioner' error means the drive seek hardware is ailing; `lost rd/wr ready' means the drive read/write logic is sick; and `drive clock dropout' means that the drive clock logic is bad, or the media is hopelessly scrambled. I have no idea what `lost recvr ready' means. A `drive detected error' is a catch-all for drive hardware trouble; `ctlr detected pulse or parity' errors are often caused by cabling problems. .Ed .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr disklabel 5 , .Xr disklabel 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver appeared in .Bx 4.2 .