1.\" $NetBSD: aac.4,v 1.13 2008/05/08 19:09:33 sborrill 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 March 10, 2007 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 SCSI RAID 5400S 59.It 60Dell PERC 2/Si 61.It 62Dell PERC 2/QC 63.It 64Dell PERC 3/Di 65.It 66Dell PERC 3/Si 67.It 68Dell PERC 320/DC 69.It 70Dell CERC SATA RAID 1.5/6ch 71.It 72HP NetRAID 4M 73.It 74HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA) 75.It 76IBM ServeRAID 8k 77.Pp 78.El 79Access to RAID containers is available via the 80.Nm ld 81device driver. 82Individual drives cannot be accessed unless they are part of a container 83or volume set, and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed. 84Containers can be configured by using the on-board BIOS utility of 85the card. 86.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 87The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver. 88These messages are printed on the system console. 89.Sh SEE ALSO 90.Xr intro 4 , 91.Xr ld 4 92.Sh HISTORY 93The 94.Nm 95driver first appeared in 96.Nx 1.6 , 97and was based on the 98.Fx 99driver of the same name. 100.Sh BUGS 101This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware. 102The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS 103POST and driver attach messages. 104