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$FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/aac.4 139230 2004-12-23 08:05:40Z scottl $
.Dd December 23, 2004 .Dt AAC 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm aac .Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd options AAC_DEBUG=N .Cd device pci .Cd device aac .Cd device aacp .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160, and Ultra320, and SATA RAID controllers.
p Access to RAID containers is available via the
a /dev/aacd? device nodes. The .Nm aacp device enables the SCSI pass-thru interface and allows devices connected to the card such as cdroms to be available via the CAM .Xr scsi 4 subsystem. Note that not all cards allow this interface to be enabled.
p The
a /dev/aac? device nodes provide access to the management interface of the controller. One node exists per installed card. The aliases
a /dev/hpn? exist for compatibilty with the Dell and HP versions of management tools, respectively. If the kernel is compiled with the .Dv COMPAT_LINUX option, or the
a aac_linux.ko and
a linux.ko modules are loaded, the Linux-compatible .Xr ioctl 2 interface for the management device will be enabled and will allow Linux-based management applications to control the card. .Ss Tuning The read-only sysctl .Va hw.aac.iosize_max defaults to 65536 and may be set at boot time to another value via .Xr loader 8 . This value determines the maximum data transfer size allowed to/from an array. Setting it higher will result in better performance, especially for large sequential access patterns. .Em Beware : internal limitations of the card limit this value to 64K for arrays with many members. While it may be safe to raise this value, this is done .Em at the operator's own risk . Note also that performance peaks at a value of 96K, and drops off dramatically at 128K, due to other limitations of the card. .Sh HARDWARE Controllers supported by the .Nm driver include:
p l -bullet -compact t Adaptec AAC-364 t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130SLP t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230SLP t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2410SA t Adaptec SCSI RAID 2810SA t Adaptec SCSI RAID 21610SA t Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S t Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 t Dell PERC 2/Si t Dell PERC 2/QC t Dell PERC 3/Si t Dell PERC 3/Di t Dell PERC 320/DC t HP NetRAID 4M .El .Sh FILES l -tag -width /boot/kernel/aac.ko -compact t Pa /dev/aac? aac management interface t Pa /dev/aacd? disk/container interface t Pa /boot/kernel/aac.ko aac loadable module .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS Compiling with .Dv AAC_DEBUG set to a number between 0 and 3 will enable increasingly verbose debug messages.
p The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver. These messages are printed on the system console, and are also queued for retrieval by a management application. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kld 4 , .Xr linux 4 , .Xr scsi 4 , .Xr kldload 8 , .Xr loader 8 , .Xr sysctl 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 4.3 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Mike Smith .Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org .An Scott Long .Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org .Sh BUGS This driver is not compatible with Dell controllers that have version 1.x firmware. The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS POST and driver attach messages.
p The controller is not actually paused on suspend/resume.
p