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.Dd November 11, 2015
.Dt CAMDD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm camdd
.Nd CAM data transfer utility
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Aq Fl i|o Ar pass=pass_dev|file=filename,bs=blocksize,[...]
.Op Fl C Ar retry_count
.Op Fl E
.Op Fl m Ar max_io
.Op Fl t Ar timeout
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is a sequential data transfer utility that offers standard
.Xr read 2
and
.Xr write 2
operation in addition to a mode that uses the asynchronous
.Xr pass 4
API.
The asynchronous
.Xr pass 4
API allows multiple requests to be queued to a device simultaneously.
.Pp
.Nm
collects performance information and will display it when the transfer
completes, when
.Nm
is terminated or when it receives a SIGINFO signal.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width 12n
.It Fl i | o Ar args
Specify the input and output device or file.
Both
.Fl i
and
.Fl o
must be specified.
There are a number of parameters that can be specified.
One of the first two (file or pass) MUST be specified to indicate which I/O
method to use on the device in question.
.Bl -tag -width 9n
.It pass=dev
Specify a
.Xr pass 4
device to operate on.
This requests that
.Nm
access the device in question be accessed via the asynchronous
.Xr pass 4
interface.
.Pp
The device name can be a
.Xr pass 4
name and unit number, for instance
.Dq pass0 ,
or a regular peripheral driver name and unit number, for instance
.Dq da5 .
It can also be the path of a
.Xr pass 4
or other disk device, like
.Dq /dev/da5 .
It may also be a bus:target:lun, for example:
.Dq 0:5:0 .
.Pp
Only
.Xr pass 4
devices for
.Tn SCSI
disk-like devices are supported.
.Tn ATA
devices are not currently supported, but support could be added later.
Specifically,
.Tn SCSI
Direct Access (type 0), WORM (type 4), CDROM (type 5), and RBC (Reduced
Block Command, type 14) devices are supported.
Tape drives, medium changers, enclosures etc. are not supported.
.It file=path
Specify a file or device to operate on.
This requests that the file or device in question be accessed using the
standard
.Xr read 2
and
.Xr write 2
system calls.
The file interface does not support queueing multiple commands at a time.
It does support probing disk sector size and capacity information, and tape
blocksize and maximum transfer size information.
The file interface supports standard files, disks, tape drives, special
devices, pipes and standard input and output.
If the file is specified as a
.Dq - ,
standard input or standard output are used.
For tape devices, the specified blocksize will be the size that
.Nm
attempts to use to write to or read from the tape.
When writing to a tape device, the blocksize is treated like a disk sector
size.
So, that means
.Nm
will not write anything smaller than the sector size.
At the end of a transfer, if there isn't sufficient data from the reader
to yield a full block,
.Nm
will add zeros on the end of the data from the reader to make up a full
block.
.It bs=N
Specify the blocksize to use for transfers.
.Nm
will attempt to read or write using the requested blocksize.
.Pp
Note that the blocksize given only applies to either the input or the
output path.
To use the same blocksize for the input and output transfers, you must
specify that blocksize with both the
.Fl i
and
.Fl o
arguments.
.Pp
The blocksize may be specified in bytes, or using any suffix (e.g. k, M, G)
supported by
.Xr expand_number 3 .
.It offset=N
Specify the starting offset for the input or output device or file.
The offset may be specified in bytes, or by using any suffix (e.g. k, M, G)
supported by
.Xr expand_number 3 .
.It depth=N
Specify a desired queue depth for the input or output path.
.Nm
will attempt to keep the requested number of requests of the specified
blocksize queued to the input or output device.
Queue depths greater than 1 are only supported for the asynchronous
.Xr pass 4
output method.
The queue depth is maintained on a best effort basis, and may not be
possible to maintain for especially fast devices.
For writes, maintaining the queue depth also depends on a sufficiently
fast reading device.
.It mcs=N
Specify the minimum command size to use for
.Xr pass 4
devices.
Some devices do not support 6 byte
.Tn SCSI
commands.
The
.Xr da 4
device handles this restriction automatically, but the
.Xr pass 4
device allows the user to specify the
.Tn SCSI
command used.
If a device does not accept 6 byte
.Tn SCSI
READ/WRITE commands (which is the default at lower LBAs), it will generally
accept 10 byte
.Tn SCSI
commands instead.
.It debug=N
Specify the debug level for this device.
There is currently only one debug level setting, so setting this to any
non-zero value will turn on debugging.
The debug facility may be expanded in the future.
.El
.It Fl C Ar count
Specify the retry count for commands sent via the asynchronous
.Xr pass 4
interface.
This does not apply to commands sent via the file interface.
.It Fl E
Enable kernel error recovery for the
.Xr pass 4
driver.
If error recovery is not enabled, unit attention conditions and other
transient failures may cause the transfer to fail.
.It Fl m Ar size
Specify the maximum amount of data to be transferred.
This may be specified in bytes, or by using any suffix (e.g. K, M, G)
supported by
.Xr expand_number 3 .
.It Fl t Ar timeout
Specify the command timeout in seconds to use for commands sent via the
.Xr pass 4
driver.
.It Fl v
Enable verbose reporting of errors.
This is recommended to aid in debugging any
.Tn SCSI
issues that come up.
.It Fl h
Display the
.Nm
usage message.
.El
.Pp
If
.Nm
receives a SIGINFO signal, it will print the current input and output byte
counts, elapsed runtime and average throughput.
If
.Nm
receives a SIGINT signal, it will print the current input and output byte
counts, elapsed runtime and average throughput and then exit.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Dl camdd -i pass=da8,bs=512k,depth=4 -o pass=da3,bs=512k,depth=4
.Pp
Copy all data from da8 to da3 using a blocksize of 512k for both drives,
and attempt to maintain a queue depth of 4 on both the input and output
devices.
The transfer will stop when the end of either device is reached.
.Pp
.Dl camdd -i file=/dev/zero,bs=1M -o pass=da5,bs=1M,depth=4 -m 100M
.Pp
Read 1MB blocks of zeros from /dev/zero, and write them to da5 with a
desired queue depth of 4.
Stop the transfer after 100MB has been written.
.Pp
.Dl camdd -i pass=da8,bs=1M,depth=3 -o file=disk.img
.Pp
Copy disk da8 using a 1MB blocksize and desired queue depth of 3 to the
file disk.img.
.Pp
.Dl camdd -i file=/etc/rc -o file=-
.Pp
Read the file /etc/rc and write it to standard output.
.Pp
.Dl camdd -i pass=da10,bs=64k,depth=16 -o file=/dev/nsa0,bs=128k
.Pp
Copy 64K blocks from the disk da10 with a queue depth of 16, and write
to the tape drive sa0 with a 128k blocksize.
The copy will stop when either the end of the disk or tape is reached.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cam 3 ,
.Xr cam 4 ,
.Xr pass 4 ,
.Xr camcontrol 8
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in
.Fx 10.2
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Kenneth Merry Aq Mt ken@FreeBSD.org