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authorscottl <scottl@FreeBSD.org>2001-05-10 22:34:45 +0000
committerscottl <scottl@FreeBSD.org>2001-05-10 22:34:45 +0000
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Add information about the 2400A controllers. Fix erroneous reference to
BSD/OS.
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@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm asr
-.Nd driver for Adaptec I2O based SCSI host bus adapters
+.Nd driver for Adaptec I2O based SCSI/ATA host bus adapters
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device asr"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The Adaptec
.Nm
-driver provides access to SCSI disks
+driver provides access to disks
and disk arrays controlled by I2O based host bus adapters and
SmartRAID SCSI RAID adapters through the standard SCSI disk
.Xr da 4
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ The adapters currently supported include the following RAID adapters:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "Adaptec SmartRAID PM1554" -compact
.It Adaptec SCSI RAID 2100S
+.It Adaptec ATA-100 RAID 2400A
.It Adaptec SCSI RAID 3200S
.It Adaptec SCSI RAID 3400S
.It Adaptec SmartRAID PM1554
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ ACPI and up to four channels of Ultra 160 SCSI,
or two channels of 1GB Fibre.
All support RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-10, RAID-5 and RAID-50 arrays.
All SCSI target types are supported.
+For the ATA based controllers, one IDE drive per channel is supported.
+Hot-swapping of IDE drives is not supported at this time.
.Pp
The PCI adapters automatically configure
using the configuration mechanism of the bus they are on.
@@ -56,15 +59,19 @@ Please contact Adaptec directly to obtain the latest information
on configuration utilities for the adapters.
Currently there are both a GUI Motif based configuration utility
and a CLI based configuration utility available from the Adaptec Web site.
-Note that in the absence of a native BSD/OS version
+Note that in the absence of a native FreeBSD version
of the configuration utilities
does not mean one can not configure the devices via the BIOS
based configuration tool Storage Manager on ROM (SMOR).
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/dev/asr*" -compact
.It Pa /dev/asr*
-Adaptec SCSI RAID device nodes
+Adaptec SCSI RAID control nodes
.El
+.Sh NOTES
+The ATA based controllers present their devices as SCSI-like devices via CAM.
+For IDE drives attached to these cards, a subset of standard SCSI commands
+and mode pages are understood via translation performed in the card's firmware.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr da 4
.Sh HISTORY
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