WD(4) | Device Drivers Manual | WD(4) |
wd
— WD100x
compatible hard disk driver
wd* at atabus? drive ? flags 0x0000
wd* at umass?
options WD_SOFTBADSECT
The wd
driver supports hard disks that
emulate the Western Digital WD100x. This includes standard MFM, RLL, ESDI,
IDE, EIDE, and SATA drives.
The flags are used only with controllers that support DMA operations and mode settings (like some pciide controllers). The lowest order nibble (rightmost digit) of the flags defines the PIO mode, the next four bits define the DMA mode and the third nibble defines the UltraDMA mode. For each set of four bits, the 3 lower bits define the mode to use and the last bit must be set to 1 for this setting to be used. For DMA and UDMA, 0xf (1111) means 'disable'. For example, a flags value of 0x0fac (1111 1010 1100) means 'use PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, disable UltraDMA'. 0x0000 means "use whatever the drive claims to support."
The kernel configuration option “options
WD_SOFTBADSECT
” enables a software managed bad-sector list
which will prevent further accesses to sectors where an unrecoverable read
error occurred. A user interface is provided by
dkctl(8). Unlike the
(historical) mechanisms provided by
bad144(8) and
badsect(8), the software list
supports neither sector replacement nor retention across reboots.
The following sysctl(8) variables control behavior of disks attached using this driver:
hw.wdX.use_ncq
hw.wdX.use_ncq_prio
hw.wdX.use_ncq
is
also true. Default to false.Certain Seagate Barracuda drives sold around 2003 have a known firmware bug leading to corrupted write transfers for sector counts n*15 + 1, in combination with certain ATA controllers, most commonly Silicon Image 3xxx. Affected drives include, but are not limited to:
If you have one of these drives, it's recommended to replace the drive. There used to exist a driver workaround greatly reducing performance, but the code was completely removed in NetBSD 8.0.
ata(4), intro(4), pciide(4), scsi(4), umass(4), wdc(4), atactl(8), dkctl(8)
The optional software bad sector list does not interoperate well with sector remapping features of modern disks. To let the disk remap a sector internally, the software bad sector list must be flushed or disabled before.
January 13, 2020 | NetBSD 10.99 |