xref: /netbsd-src/share/man/man4/aac.4 (revision f90b22ef19cafc7eff2fd2feaee0c8d801982c12)
1.\"	$NetBSD: aac.4,v 1.15 2016/06/01 01:33:10 pgoyette Exp $
2.\"
3.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Scott Long
4.\" All rights reserved.
5.\"
6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
8.\" are met:
9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
10.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
12.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
13.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
14.\"
15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
25.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
26.\"
27.\" from FreeBSD: aac.4,v 1.18 2001/09/27 21:52:42 scottl Exp
28.Dd June 1, 2016
29.Dt AAC 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm aac
33.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "aac* at pci? dev ? function ?"
36.Cd "ld* at aac? unit ?"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI
41and SATA RAID controllers.
42These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and volume sets.
43They have four channels in the add-in version
44or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version,
45and are most often found rebadged by Dell, Hewlett-Packard or IBM.
46Supported controllers include:
47.Pp
48.Bl -bullet -compact
49.It
50Adaptec AAC-364
51.It
52Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
53.It
54Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
55.It
56Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA
57.It
58Adaptec SATA RAID 3405
59.It
60Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
61.It
62Dell PERC 2/Si
63.It
64Dell PERC 2/QC
65.It
66Dell PERC 3/Di
67.It
68Dell PERC 3/Si
69.It
70Dell PERC 320/DC
71.It
72Dell CERC SATA RAID 1.5/6ch
73.It
74HP NetRAID 4M
75.It
76HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA)
77.It
78IBM ServeRAID 8k
79.El
80.Pp
81Access to RAID containers is available via the
82.Nm ld
83device driver.
84Individual drives cannot be accessed unless they are part of a container
85or volume set, and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.
86Containers can be configured by using the on-board BIOS utility of
87the card.
88.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
89The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver.
90These messages are printed on the system console.
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Xr intro 4 ,
93.Xr ld 4
94.Sh HISTORY
95The
96.Nm
97driver first appeared in
98.Nx 1.6 ,
99and was based on the
100.Fx
101driver of the same name.
102.Sh BUGS
103This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.
104The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS
105POST and driver attach messages.
106