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AHCI(4)			 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		       AHCI(4)

NAME
     ahci — Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface driver

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
     kernel configuration file:

	   device pci
	   device scbus
	   device ahci

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
     following line in loader.conf(5):

	   ahci_load="YES"

     The following tunables are settable from the loader(8):

     hint.ahci.X.msi
     controls Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) usage by the specified con‐
     troller
     0		   MSI disabled;
     1		   single MSI vector used, if supported (default);
     2		   multiple MSI vectors used, if supported;

     hint.ahci.X.ccc
     controls Command Completion Coalescing (CCC) usage by the specified con‐
     troller.  Non-zero value enables CCC and defines maximum time (in ms),
     request can wait for interrupt, if there are some more requests present
     on controller queue.  CCC reduces number of context switches on systems
     with many parallel requests, but it can decrease disk performance on some
     workloads due to additional command latency.

     hint.ahcich.X.pm_level
     controls SATA interface Power Management for the specified channel,
     allowing some power to be saved at the cost of additional command
     latency.  Possible values:
     0		   interface Power Management is disabled (default);
     1		   device is allowed to initiate PM state change, host is pas‐
		   sive;
     2		   host initiates PARTIAL PM state transition every time port
		   becomes idle;
     3		   host initiates SLUMBER PM state transition every time port
		   becomes idle.
     4		   driver initiates PARTIAL PM state transition 1ms after port
		   becomes idle;
     5		   driver initiates SLUMBER PM state transition 125ms after
		   port becomes idle.
     Some controllers, such as ICH8, do not implement modes 2 and 3 with NCQ
     used.  Because of artificial entering latency, performance degradation in
     modes 4 and 5 is much smaller then in modes 2 and 3.

     Note that interface Power Management is not compatible with device pres‐
     ence detection.  A manual bus reset is needed on device hot-plug.

     hint.ahcich.X.sata_rev
     setting to nonzero value limits maximum SATA revision (speed).  Values 1,
     2 and 3 are respectively 1.5, 3 and 6Gbps.

DESCRIPTION
     This driver provides the CAM(4) subsystem with native access to the SATA
     ports of AHCI-compatible controllers.  Each SATA port found is repre‐
     sented to CAM as a separate bus with one target, or, if HBA supports Port
     Multipliers, 16 targets.  Most of the bus-management details are handled
     by the SATA-specific transport of CAM.  Connected ATA disks are handled
     by the ATA protocol disk peripheral driver ada(4).	 ATAPI devices are
     handled by the SCSI protocol peripheral drivers cd(4), da(4), sa(4), etc.

     Driver features include support for Serial ATA and ATAPI devices, Port
     Multipliers (including FIS-based switching, when supported), hardware
     command queues (up to 32 commands per port), Native Command Queuing, SATA
     interface Power Management, device hot-plug and Message Signaled Inter‐
     rupts.

     AHCI hardware is also supported by ataahci driver from ata(4) subsystem.
     If both drivers are loaded at the same time, this one will be given
     precedence as the more functional of the two.

HARDWARE
     The ahci driver supports AHCI compatible controllers having PCI class 1
     (mass storage), subclass 6 (SATA) and programming interface 1 (AHCI).

     Also, in cooperation with atamarvell and atajmicron drivers of ata(4), it
     supports AHCI part of legacy-PATA + AHCI-SATA combined controllers, such
     as JMicron JMB36x and Marvell 88SX61xx.

SEE ALSO
     ada(4), ata(4), cam(4), cd(4), da(4), sa(4)

HISTORY
     The ahci driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

AUTHORS
     Alexander Motin ⟨mav@FreeBSD.org⟩.

BSD			       January 28, 2010				   BSD
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