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author | scottl <scottl@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-23 00:27:56 +0000 |
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committer | scottl <scottl@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-23 00:27:56 +0000 |
commit | dd4bc2ed67087915110fbc1199163bb268c97222 (patch) | |
tree | 0e6a3ba3129b305af3363dc3a88b0d6c65585988 /share | |
parent | d46dec63e59a2ad4413cadc39463a57cda169f92 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-dd4bc2ed67087915110fbc1199163bb268c97222.zip FreeBSD-src-dd4bc2ed67087915110fbc1199163bb268c97222.tar.gz |
Document the new passthrough interface.
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-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/ciss.4 | 11 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ciss.4 b/share/man/man4/ciss.4 index 98dd4fe..1f55fff 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ciss.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ciss.4 @@ -60,7 +60,15 @@ and it is dubious whether they would provide major performance improvements except under extreme load. .Pp Non-disk devices (such as internal DATs and devices -attached to the external SCSI bus) are not yet supported. +attached to the external SCSI bus) are supported as normal CAM devices +provided that they are exported by the controller firmware and are not +marked as being masked. Masked devices can be exposed by setting the +.Va hw.ciss.expose_hidden_physical +tunable to non-zero at boot time. Direct Access devices (such as disk +drives) are only exposed as +.Xr pass 4 +devices. Hot-insertion and removal of devices is supported but a bus +rescan might be necessary. .Pp Supported controllers include: .Pp @@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ HP Modular Smart Array 500 (MSA500) .Xr cam 4 , .Xr pass 4 , .Xr xpt 4 , +.Xr loader.conf 5 , .Xr camcontrol 8 .Rs .%T "CISS Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support Open Specification, Version 1.04, Valence Number 1" |