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Update teh aac(4) manpage to note new controllers, the scsi passthru

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interface, changes to linux compatibilty, and fewer bugs.
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Scott Long 2003-02-20 05:20:05 +00:00
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.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