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ide@unit-address
The uata Host Bus Adapter driver is a nexus driver that supports the ide interface on SPARC platforms.
It supports DMA mode-2 for the disk drives and ATAPI cdrom drives. It has support to handle two channels concurrently with two devices connected on each channel. The devices are logically numbered from 0 to 3.
Master disk on Primary channel.
Slave disk on Primary channel.
Master disk on Secondary channel
Slave disk on Secondary channel.
/kernel/drv/uata
prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5)
OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference ManualOpenBoot Command Reference
X3T10 ATA-4 specifications.
The messages described below are some that may appear on the system console, as well as being logged.
The driver could not obtain the interrupt cookie so the attach could fail.
During the initialization process of the drives, driver needs to set the feaures such as dma mode/pio mode etc. for the drives. The above stated message would come if the drives are not ready to be programmed. Setting of features would fail. This could indicate a fatal problem with the drive.
The above stated message also indicates that there was a problem in setting the featues for the drive. This indicates a fatal problem with the drive.
The above stated message also indicates that there was a problem in setting the features for the drive. This indicates a fatal problem with the drive.
This is an information message which would appear at the boot up time to indicate that target <#number> was identified.
There was a residual in data transfer and the I/O operation could not be finished completely.
This is generally a fatal condition. It indicates that even after the reset of the channel, I/O operation could not be completed.
msgp could be - early abort, early timeout, abort request, abort device, reset target, reset bus
These messages are informational and indicate that a timeout occured for a I/O request. The uata driver recovers from these states automatically unless there is a fatal error.
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