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$FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/mfi.4 157248 2006-03-29 07:35:39Z scottl $
.Dd March 29, 2006 .Dt MFI 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm mfi .Nd "LSI MegaRAID SAS driver" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "device pci" .Cd "device mfi" .Sh DESCRIPTION This driver is for LSI's next generation PCI Express SAS RAID controllers. Access to RAID arrays (logical disks) from this driver is provided via
a /dev/mfid? device nodes. A simple management interface is also provided on a per-controller basis via the
p The .Nm name is derived from the phrase "MegaRAID Firmware Interface", which is substantially different than the old "MegaRAID" interface and thus requires a new driver. Older SCSI and SATA MegaRAID cards will not work with this driver.
p .Sh HARDWARE The .Nm driver supports the following hardware:
p l -bullet -compact t LSI MegaRAID SAS 8408E t LSI MegaRAID SAS 8480E t Dell PERC5/i .El .Sh FILES l -tag -width ".Pa /dev/mfid?" -compact t Pa /dev/mfid? array/logical disk interface t Pa /dev/mfi? management interface .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pci 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm manual page example first appeared in .Fx 7.0 .
p .El .Sh AUTHORS This manual page was written by .An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org . .Sh BUGS The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time.