`devb-ahci`

Driver for AHCI SATA interfaces (QNX Neutrino)

You must be root to start this driver.

Syntax:

devb-ahci [cam option[,option]...]
          [mem option[,option]...]
          [ahci option[,option]...]
          [blk option[,option]...] &

Options:

Use commas (,) to separate the options. You can put the cam, ahci, mem, and blk groups of options in any order.

`cam` options

lun=mask: Enable Logical Unit Number (LUN) scan for the devices specified in mask. The mask is a hex bitmask specifying which IDs to scan for; the default is 0x00.
quiet: Be quiet: don't display any information on startup.
verbose: Be verbose: display full information about SCSI units (devices) on startup.

`mem` options

name=tname

The typed memory name to use.

It's up to the startup to set up typed memory. For more information, see “Typed memory” in the “Interprocess Communication (IPC)” chapter of the System Architecture guide.

The ahci options control the driver's interface to the AHCI controller. If you've installed multiple controllers, you can repeat these options for each controller. Remember, however, to specify the ahci keyword before each controller's set of options.

Interface-specific options:

did=did: The device ID of the controller.
ioport=addr: The address of the interface.
irq=req: The interrupt used by the controller.
nobmstr: Don't use busmastering. Specify this option if you want to disable DMA.
nports=num: Set the number of ports.
pci=index: The PCI index of the controller in the machine, where index is a value between 0 and the number of adapters.
pi=bitmap: Set the ports implemented bitmap. For example, pi=0x4 specifies port 2.
port=N,device: Specify options for device on port N.
priority=prio: Set the priority of the processing thread. The default is 21.
timeout=timeout: Set the I/O request timeout, in seconds. The default is 10.
vid=vid: The vendor ID of the controller.
xlat=xlat: Busmaster translation.

Device-specific options:

geometry=heads:cyl:sect: Specify the drive geometry.
nobmstr: Don't use busmastering. Specify this option if you want to disable DMA.
chs: Use Cylinder-Head-Sector mode. The default is LBA.

`blk` options

The blk options control io-blk.so. If specified, they must follow the blk keyword.

Description:

The devb-ahci supports the Intel AHCI SATA controller with the following device IDs:

ICH-6 82801FB_SATA 0x2651
ICH-6 82801FBM_SATA 0x2653
ICH-7 82801GB_SATA 0x27c1
ICH-7 82801GBM_SATA 0x27c5

You need to enable AHCI mode in the BIOS.

Examples:

Detect all SATA controllers, and list all connected devices:

devb-ahci &

Detect all SATA controllers and use a typed memory region named dma (which the startup must have set up):

devb-ahci mem name=/ram/dma &

Files:

The devb-ahci driver causes io-blk.so to adopt various block special devices under /dev. These devices are normally named hdn, where n is the physical unit number of the device.

This driver could also require the following shared objects:

Binary	Required
`cam-disk.so`	For hard-disk access.
`libcam.so`	Always

Exit status:

The devb-ahci driver terminates only if an error occurs during startup, or if it has successfully forked itself upon startup because it hadn't been initially started in the background.

0: The devb-ahci driver wasn't started in the background and therefore forked itself. The original process terminated with a zero exit status, the forked process continued.
> 0: An error occurred during startup.

Caveats:

Unless overridden with the blk automount= option (see io-blk.so), devices are mounted as:

Device	Mountpoint	Filesystem type
`/dev/hd0t77`	`/hd`	`qnx4`
`/dev/hd0t177`	`/hd`	`qnx6` (Power-Safe)
`/dev/hd0t6`	`/dos`	`dos`
`/dev/hd0t11`	`/dos`	`dos`

While there's no limit to the size of a disk or partition, the limit on I/O (i.e., the lseek(), read() and write() functions) depends on the type of filesystem mounted and on whether you use the 32- or 64-bit versions of these functions. This I/O limit has no effect on the partition size for mounted filesystems. The maximum number of blocks is 2³².

Known supported functions include:

chmod(), chown(), close(), closedir(), creat(), devctl(), dup(), dup2(), fcntl(), fpathconf(), fstat(), lseek(), mkdir(), mkfifo(), mknod(), open(), opendir(), pathconf(), read(), readdir(), readlink(), rewinddir(), rmdir(), stat(), symlink(), unlink() (not supported for directories), utime(), write()

Note that certain calls (such as pipe(), as well as read() and write() on FIFOs) may require the pipe manager.