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authorscottl <scottl@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-20 05:20:05 +0000
committerscottl <scottl@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-20 05:20:05 +0000
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Update teh aac(4) manpage to note new controllers, the scsi passthru
interface, changes to linux compatibilty, and fewer bugs.
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/aac.441
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/aac.4 b/share/man/man4/aac.4
index 2e598b5..4425117 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/aac.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/aac.4
@@ -30,24 +30,24 @@
.Nm aac
.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Cd options AAC_COMPAT_LINUX
.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 SCSI Ultra2 and Ultra160
-RAID controllers.
-These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and volume sets.
-They have four channels in the add-in version
-or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version,
-and are most often found relabeled by Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
+driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160,
+and Ultra320 RAID controllers.
Supported controllers include:
.Bl -bullet
.It
AAC-364
.It
+Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
+.It
+Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
+.It
Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
.It
HP NetRAID 4M
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ unless they are part of a container or volume set,
and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.
Containers can be configured by using
either the on-board BIOS utility of the card,
-or a Linux-based management application.
+or a command-line interface management application.
.Pp
The
.Pa /dev/aac?
@@ -81,11 +81,20 @@ and
.Pa /dev/hpn?
exist for the Dell and HP flavors, respectively, and are required for
the CLI management utility available from these vendors to work.
-Compiling the driver with the
-.Dv AAC_COMPAT_LINUX
-option enables the Linux-compatible
+If the kernel is compiled with the
+.Dv COMPAT_LINUX
+option, or the aac_linux.ko and linux.ko modules are loaded, the
+Linux-compatible
.Xr ioctl 2
-interface for the management device.
+interface for the management device will be enabled and will allow
+Linux-based management applications to control the card.
+.Pp
+The
+.Cd 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.
.Ss Tuning
The read-only sysctl
.Va hw.aac.iosize_max
@@ -126,6 +135,7 @@ 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
@@ -140,13 +150,10 @@ driver first appeared in
.An Scott Long
.Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
.Sh BUGS
-This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.
+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.
.Pp
-This driver will not work on systems with more than 4GB of memory.
-.Pp
The controller is not actually paused on suspend/resume.
.Pp
-Unloading driver is not supported at this time.
-.Pp
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