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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 237247 19-Jun-2012 wblock

MFC r235873, r235967:

Fixes to man8 groff mandoc style, usage mistakes, or typos.

PR: 168016
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru
Approved by: gjb (mentor)


# 226800 26-Oct-2011 rodrigc

Add a "kern.features.ata_cam" sysctl in the kernel when the ATA_CAM kernel
option is defined. This sysctl can be queried by feature_present(3).

Query for this feature in /sbin/atacontrol and /usr/sbin/burncd.
If these utilities detect that ATA_CAM is enabled, then these utilities
will error out. These utilities are compatible with the old ATA
driver, but are incomptible with the new ATA_CAM driver. By erroring out,
we give end-users an idea as to what remedies to use, and reduce the need for them
to file PR's. For atacontrol, camcontrol must be used instead,
and for burncd, alternative utilties from the ports collection must be used
such as sysutils/cdrtools.

In future, maybe someone can re-write burncd to work with ATA_CAM,
but at least for now, we give a somewhat useful error message to end users.

PR: 160979
Reviewed by: jh, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail dot com>
Approved by: re (kib)
Reported by: Joe Barbish <fbsd8 at a1poweruser dot com>


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 222176 22-May-2011 uqs

Re-encode files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8


# 188922 22-Feb-2009 mav

Add SATA and USB modes for completeness. USB modes principally can't be set,
SATA mode setting is not implementes at this time.

Submitted by: Christoph Mallon


# 186079 14-Dec-2008 ru

Fix the fallouts from r146267:

- Add the forgotten "mode" argument to the "mode" command.
- Move the description of "info" to where it belongs.


# 180005 25-Jun-2008 bz

Document spindown constraints as given in the original commit
message[1] and later clarification provided by phk.

[1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200803171033.m2HAXOeN055116

Reviewed by: brueffer, phk, ed


# 177298 17-Mar-2008 phk

Add a "spindown" facility to ata-disks: If no requests have been received
for a configurable number of seconds, spin the disk down. Spin it back
up on the next request.

Notice that the timeout is only armed by a request, so to spin down a
disk you may have to do:

atacontrol spindown ad10 5
dd if=/dev/ad10 of=/dev/null count=1

To disable spindown, set timeout to zero:

atacontrol spindown ad10 0

In order to debug any trouble caused, this code is somewhat noisy on the
console.

Enabling spindown on a disk containing / or /var/log/messages is not
going to do anything sensible.

Spinning a disk up and down all the time will wear it out, use sensibly.

Approved by: sos


# 174034 28-Nov-2007 remko

Expand the EXAMPLES section for atacontrol.8

PR: docs/117310
Submitted by: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc dot net>
with minor modifications by me.


# 152568 18-Nov-2005 ru

-mdoc sweep.


# 149155 16-Aug-2005 brueffer

Clarify how the 'channel' argument should look like and add an
example on how to obtain information on devices on an ata channel.

PR: 84676
Submitted by: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
MFC after: 3 days


# 146271 16-May-2005 ru

Fixed markup from the previous revision.


# 146267 16-May-2005 sos

Reflect the new usage.


# 131488 02-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


# 114530 02-May-2003 sos

Add "addspare" functionality.


# 108218 23-Dec-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: markup nits.


# 107873 14-Dec-2002 trhodes

Add a list of currently supported modes && an EXAMPLES section.

PR: 40465
Submitted by: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>


# 101788 13-Aug-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: kill hard sentence break.


# 99501 06-Jul-2002 charnier

The .Nm utility


# 99265 02-Jul-2002 trhodes

Minor spelling and grammar fixes in the atacontrol(8) manual page.

PR: 39393


# 97472 29-May-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: tidy up the markup.


# 93662 02-Apr-2002 sos

Add get-status to the ATA RAID subsystem.


# 93433 30-Mar-2002 sos

Add support for getting status (fan, temp, 5V and 12V levels) from
Promise Superswap enclosures.

Sponsored by: Advanis


# 93277 27-Mar-2002 sos

Add support for creating/deleting ATA RAID's

Sponsored by: Advanis


# 92333 15-Mar-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: tiny fixes.


# 92003 10-Mar-2002 sos

Check the <channel> arg a bit more.

Submitted by: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>


# 91646 04-Mar-2002 sos

Update headers


# 91594 03-Mar-2002 sos

Add the RAID rebuild command.


# 79530 10-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 76743 17-May-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: update document date.


# 76742 17-May-2001 sos

Update to use the new ioctl interface.

Add the list command.


# 75670 18-Apr-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: normalize .Nd.


# 74452 19-Mar-2001 ru

Fix minor mdoc(7) and spelling nits.


# 74446 19-Mar-2001 sos

Incorporate most of Ruslans changes plus minor addtion by me


# 74334 16-Mar-2001 imp

Back out ru's changes. Soren has requested this and I see no reason
to not just do it. It is his new code that is being actively
developed so he has say over it. ru's direct changes were premature
as they occurred less than 4 hours after it was committed to the tree.


# 74308 15-Mar-2001 ru

Make this compile with ${BDECFLAGS}, apply style(9), cleanup manpage.


# 74305 15-Mar-2001 sos

Add atacontrol, a util to control variuos aspects of the ATA.4 driver,
please consult atacontrol.8 for usage..