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CAM(4)		       FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual			CAM(4)

NAME
     CAM -- Common Access Method SCSI/ATA subsystem

SYNOPSIS
     device scbus
     device ada
     device cd
     device ch
     device da
     device pass
     device pt
     device sa
     options CAMDEBUG
     options CAM_DEBUG_BUS=-1
     options CAM_DEBUG_TARGET=-1
     options CAM_DEBUG_LUN=-1
     options CAM_DEBUG_COMPILE=CAM_DEBUG_INFO|CAM_DEBUG_CDB|CAM_DEBUG_PROBE
     options CAM_DEBUG_FLAGS=CAM_DEBUG_INFO|CAM_DEBUG_CDB
     options CAM_MAX_HIGHPOWER=4
     options SCSI_NO_SENSE_STRINGS
     options SCSI_NO_OP_STRINGS
     options SCSI_DELAY=8000

DESCRIPTION
     The CAM subsystem provides	a uniform and modular system for the implemen-
     tation of drivers to control various SCSI and ATA devices,	and to utilize
     different SCSI and	ATA host adapters through host adapter drivers.	 When
     the system	probes busses, it attaches any devices it finds	to the appro-
     priate drivers.  The pass(4) driver, if it	is configured in the kernel,
     will attach to all	devices.

KERNEL CONFIGURATION
     There are a number	of generic kernel configuration	options	for the	CAM
     subsystem:

     CAMDEBUG		    This option	compiles in all	the CAM	debugging
			    printf code.  This will not	actually cause any de-
			    bugging information	to be printed out when in-
			    cluded by itself.  See below for details.

     CAM_MAX_HIGHPOWER=4    This sets the maximum allowable number of concur-
			    rent "high power" commands.	 A "high power"	com-
			    mand is a command that takes more electrical power
			    than most to complete.  An example of this is the
			    SCSI START UNIT command.  Starting a disk often
			    takes significantly	more electrical	power than
			    normal operation.  This option allows the user to
			    specify how	many concurrent	high power commands
			    may	be outstanding without overloading the power
			    supply on his computer.

     SCSI_NO_SENSE_STRINGS  This eliminates text descriptions of each SCSI Ad-
			    ditional Sense Code	and Additional Sense Code
			    Qualifier pair.  Since this	is a fairly large text
			    database, eliminating it reduces the size of the
			    kernel somewhat.  This is primarily	necessary for
			    boot floppies and other low	disk space or low mem-
			    ory	space environments.  In	most cases, though,
			    this should	be enabled, since it speeds the	inter-
			    pretation of SCSI error messages.  Do not let the
			    "kernel bloat" zealots get to you -- leave the
			    sense descriptions in your kernel!

     SCSI_NO_OP_STRINGS	    This disables text descriptions of each SCSI op-
			    code.  This	option,	like the sense string option
			    above, is primarily	useful for environments	like a
			    boot floppy	where kernel size is critical.	En-
			    abling this	option for normal use is not recom-
			    mended, since it slows debugging of	SCSI problems.

     SCSI_DELAY=8000	    This is the	SCSI "bus settle delay."  In CAM, it
			    is specified in milliseconds, not seconds like the
			    old	SCSI layer used	to do.	When the kernel	boots,
			    it sends a bus reset to each SCSI bus to tell each
			    device to reset itself to a	default	set of trans-
			    fer	negotiations and other settings.  Most SCSI
			    devices need some amount of	time to	recover	from a
			    bus	reset.	Newer disks may	need as	little as
			    100ms, while old, slow devices may need much
			    longer.  If	the SCSI_DELAY is not specified, it
			    defaults to	2 seconds.  The	minimum	allowable
			    value for SCSI_DELAY is "100", or 100ms.  One spe-
			    cial case is that if the SCSI_DELAY	is set to 0,
			    that will be taken to mean the "lowest possible
			    value."  In	that case, the SCSI_DELAY will be re-
			    set	to 100ms.

     All devices and busses support dynamic allocation so that an upper	number
     of	devices	and controllers	does not need to be configured;	device da will
     suffice for any number of disk drivers.

     The devices are either wired so they appear as a particular device	unit
     or	counted	so that	they appear as the next	available unused unit.

     Units are wired down by setting kernel environment	hints.	This is	usu-
     ally done either interactively from the loader(8),	or automatically via
     the /boot/device.hints file.  The basic syntax is:

	   hint.device.unit.property="value"

     Individual	CAM bus	numbers	can be wired down to specific controllers with
     a config line similar to the following:

	   hint.scbus.0.at="ahd1"

     This assigns CAM bus number 0 to the ahd1 driver instance.	 For con-
     trollers supporting more than one bus, a particular bus can be assigned
     as	follows:

	   hint.scbus.0.at="ahc1"
	   hint.scbus.0.bus="1"

     This assigns CAM bus 0 to the bus 1 instance on ahc1.  Peripheral drivers
     can be wired to a specific	bus, target, and lun as	so:

	   hint.da.0.at="scbus0"
	   hint.da.0.target="0"
	   hint.da.0.unit="0"

     This assigns da0 to target	0, unit	(lun) 0	of scbus 0.  Omitting the tar-
     get or unit hints will instruct CAM to treat them as wildcards and	use
     the first respective counted instances.  These examples can be combined
     together to allow a peripheral device to be wired to any particular con-
     troller, bus, target, and/or unit instance.

     When you have a mixture of	wired down and counted devices then the	count-
     ing begins	with the first non-wired down unit for a particular type.
     That is, if you have a disk wired down as device da1, then	the first non-
     wired disk	shall come on line as da2.

ADAPTERS
     The system	allows common device drivers to	work through many different
     types of adapters.	 The adapters take requests from the upper layers and
     do	all IO between the SCSI	or ATA bus and the system.  The	maximum	size
     of	a transfer is governed by the adapter.	Most adapters can transfer
     64KB in a single operation, however many can transfer larger amounts.

TARGET MODE
     Some adapters support target mode in which	the system is capable of oper-
     ating as a	device,	responding to operations initiated by another system.
     Target mode is supported for some adapters, but is	not yet	complete for
     this version of the CAM SCSI subsystem.

FILES
     see other CAM device entries.

DIAGNOSTICS
     An	XPT_DEBUG CCB can be used to enable various amounts of tracing infor-
     mation on any specific bus/device from the	list of	options	compiled into
     the kernel.  There	are currently seven debugging flags that may be	com-
     piled in and used:

     CAM_DEBUG_INFO	 This flag enables general informational printfs for
			 the device or devices in question.

     CAM_DEBUG_TRACE	 This flag enables function-level command flow trac-
			 ing.  i.e. kernel printfs will	happen at the entrance
			 and exit of various functions.

     CAM_DEBUG_SUBTRACE	 This flag enables debugging output internal to	vari-
			 ous functions.

     CAM_DEBUG_CDB	 This flag will	cause the kernel to print out all ATA
			 and SCSI commands sent	to a particular	device or de-
			 vices.

     CAM_DEBUG_XPT	 This flag will	enable command scheduler tracing.

     CAM_DEBUG_PERIPH	 This flag will	enable peripheral drivers messages.

     CAM_DEBUG_PROBE	 This flag will	enable devices probe process tracing.

     Some of these flags, most notably CAM_DEBUG_TRACE and CAM_DEBUG_SUBTRACE,
     will produce kernel printfs in EXTREME numbers.

     Users can enable debugging	from their kernel config file, by using	the
     following kernel config options:

     CAMDEBUG		This builds into the kernel all	possible CAM debug-
			ging.

     CAM_DEBUG_COMPILE	This allows to specify support for which debugging
			flags described	above should be	built into the kernel.
			Flags may be ORed together if the user wishes to see
			printfs	for multiple debugging levels.

     CAM_DEBUG_FLAGS	This allows to set the various debugging flags from a
			kernel config file.

     CAM_DEBUG_BUS	Specify	a bus to debug.	 To debug all busses, set this
			to -1.

     CAM_DEBUG_TARGET	Specify	a target to debug.  To debug all targets, set
			this to	-1.

     CAM_DEBUG_LUN	Specify	a lun to debug.	 To debug all luns, set	this
			to -1.

     Users may also enable debugging on	the fly	by using the camcontrol(8)
     utility, if wanted	options	built into the kernel.	See camcontrol(8) for
     details.

SEE ALSO
     ada(4), aha(4), ahb(4), ahc(4), ahci(4), ata(4), bt(4), cd(4), ch(4),
     da(4), pass(4), pt(4), sa(4), xpt(4), camcontrol(8)

HISTORY
     The CAM SCSI subsystem first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.  The	CAM ATA	sup-
     port was added in FreeBSD 8.0.

AUTHORS
     The CAM SCSI subsystem was	written	by Justin Gibbs	and Kenneth Merry.
     The CAM ATA support was added by Alexander	Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>.

FreeBSD	13.0			 June 7, 2012			  FreeBSD 13.0

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | KERNEL CONFIGURATION | ADAPTERS | TARGET MODE | FILES | DIAGNOSTICS | SEE ALSO | HISTORY | AUTHORS

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