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diff --git a/share/man/man4/twa.4 b/share/man/man4/twa.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32cccfc --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/twa.4 @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2004 3ware, Inc. +.\" Copyright (c) 2000 BSDi +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd May 9, 2007 +.Dt TWA 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm twa +.Nd 3ware 9000/9500/9550/9650 series SATA RAID controllers driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device scbus" +.Cd "device twa" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +twa_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for AMCC's 3ware 9000/9500/9550/9650 series +SATA controllers. +.Pp +These controllers are available in 4, 8, 12 or 16-port configurations, +and support the following RAID levels: 0, 1, 10, 5, 50. +The device nodes for the controllers are of the form +.Pa /dev/twa Ns Ar X , +where +.Ar X +is the controller number. +The driver is implemented as a SCSI SIM +under CAM, and, as such, the logical units that it controls are accessible +via the device nodes, +.Pa /dev/da Ns Ar Y , +where +.Ar Y +is the logical unit number. +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports the following SATA RAID controllers: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500S-4LP +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500S-8 +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500S-8MI +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500S-12 +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500S-12MI +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-4LP +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-8LP +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-12 +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-12MI +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-16ML +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-4LP +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-8LP +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-12 +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-12MI +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-16ML +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-2LP +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-4LPML +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-8LPML +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-12ML +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-16ML +.It +AMCC's 3ware 9650SE-24M8 +.El +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +Whenever the driver encounters a command failure, it prints out an error code in +the format: +.Qq Li "ERROR: (<error source>: <error code>):" , +followed by a text description of the error. +There are other error messages and warnings that the +driver prints out, depending on the kinds of errors that it encounters. +If the driver is compiled with +.Dv TWA_DEBUG +defined, it prints out a whole bunch of debug +messages, the quantity of which varies depending on the value assigned to +.Dv TWA_DEBUG +(0 to 10). +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver and manpage were written by +.An Vinod Kashyap Aq vkashyap@FreeBSD.org . |