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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Scott Long 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 8 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" | 1.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Scott Long 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. --- 8 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" |
| 25.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/aac.4 127273 2004-03-21 15:25:20Z hrs $ 26.Dd February 22, 2001 | 25.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/aac.4 131570 2004-07-04 14:17:41Z simon $ 26.Dd July 4, 2004 |
| 27.Dt AAC 4 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm aac 31.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Cd options AAC_DEBUG=N 34.Cd device pci 35.Cd device aac 36.Cd device aacp 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160, 41and Ultra320 RAID controllers. | 27.Dt AAC 4 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm aac 31.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Cd options AAC_DEBUG=N 34.Cd device pci 35.Cd device aac 36.Cd device aacp 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160, 41and Ultra320 RAID controllers. |
| 42Supported controllers include: 43.Bl -bullet 44.It 45AAC-364 46.It 47Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S 48.It 49Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S 50.It 51Adaptec SCSI RAID 2410SA 52.It 53Adaptec SCSI RAID 2810SA 54.It 55Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S 56.It 57Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 58.It 59Dell PERC 2/Si 60.It 61Dell PERC 2/QC 62.It 63Dell PERC 3/Si 64.It 65Dell PERC 3/Di 66.It 67Dell PERC 320/DC 68.It 69HP NetRAID 4M | |
| 70.Pp | 42.Pp |
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| 72Access to RAID containers is available via the 73.Pa /dev/aacd? 74device nodes. 75Individual drives cannot be accessed 76unless they are part of a container or volume set, 77and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed. 78Containers can be configured by using 79either the on-board BIOS utility of the card, --- 41 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 121internal limitations 122of the card limit this value to 64K for arrays with many members. 123While it may be safe to raise this value, this is done 124.Em at the operator's own risk . 125Note also that 126performance peaks at a value of 96K, 127and drops off dramatically at 128K, 128due to other limitations of the card. | 43Access to RAID containers is available via the 44.Pa /dev/aacd? 45device nodes. 46Individual drives cannot be accessed 47unless they are part of a container or volume set, 48and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed. 49Containers can be configured by using 50either the on-board BIOS utility of the card, --- 41 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 92internal limitations 93of the card limit this value to 64K for arrays with many members. 94While it may be safe to raise this value, this is done 95.Em at the operator's own risk . 96Note also that 97performance peaks at a value of 96K, 98and drops off dramatically at 128K, 99due to other limitations of the card. |
| 100.Sh HARDWARE 101Controllers supported by the 102.Nm 103driver include: 104.Pp 105.Bl -bullet -compact 106.It 107Adaptec AAC-364 108.It 109Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S 110.It 111Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S 112.It 113Adaptec SCSI RAID 2410SA 114.It 115Adaptec SCSI RAID 2810SA 116.It 117Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S 118.It 119Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 120.It 121Dell PERC 2/Si 122.It 123Dell PERC 2/QC 124.It 125Dell PERC 3/Si 126.It 127Dell PERC 3/Di 128.It 129Dell PERC 320/DC 130.It 131HP NetRAID 4M 132.El |
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| 129.Sh FILES 130.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/aac.ko -compact 131.It Pa /dev/aac? 132aac management interface 133.It Pa /dev/aacd? 134disk/container interface 135.It Pa /boot/kernel/aac.ko 136aac loadable module --- 36 unchanged lines hidden --- | 133.Sh FILES 134.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/aac.ko -compact 135.It Pa /dev/aac? 136aac management interface 137.It Pa /dev/aacd? 138disk/container interface 139.It Pa /boot/kernel/aac.ko 140aac loadable module --- 36 unchanged lines hidden --- |