RL(4)

NAME
rl - RL11/ RL01 and RL02 disk interface

SYNOPSIS
rlc0 at uba? csr 0177440
rl0 at rlc0 drive 0
rl* at rlc? drive ?

DESCRIPTION
The rl driver is a typical block-device disk driver; block device I/O is described in physio(4).

The script MAKEDEV(8) should be used to create the special files; if a special file needs to be created by hand consult mknod(8).

FILES
/dev/rl[0-7][a-h]
    block files
/dev/rrl[0-7][a-h]
    raw files

DIAGNOSTICS

rl%d: operation incomplete The current command to the disk did not complete within the timeout period. This may be due to hardware failure or a heavily loaded UNIBUS.

rl%d: read data CRC The controller detected a CRC error on data read from the disk. Probably a bad disk pack.

rl%d: header CRC The controller detected a CRC error on header data read from the disk. Probably a bad disk pack.

rl%d: data late The controller was not able to transfer data over the bus fast enough to not overflow/underflow the internal FIFO, probably because a heavily loaded UNIBUS or mis-ordered UNIBUS devices.

rl%d: header not found The requested sector was not found before the timer expired. If this error is the only error then it may indicate a software bug.

rl%d: non-existent memory The controller tried to do DMA to/from a non-mapped address. This is a software bug.

rl%d: memory parity error The host memory data sent had a parity error. This is a hardware failure.

SEE ALSO
vax/hp(4), vax/uda(4), vax/up(4), syslogd(8)

HISTORY
The rl driver has been around nearly forever.

A complete new rl driver showed up in NetBSD 1.5.

BUGS
Error handling is less than optimal.

Seeks should be interleaved between multiple disks.