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27.\" from FreeBSD: aac.4,v 1.18 2001/09/27 21:52:42 scottl Exp
28.Dd May 6, 2004
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 RAID controllers.
41These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and volume sets.
42They have four channels in the add-in version
43or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version,
44and are most often found relabeled by Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
45Supported controllers include:
46.Pp
47.Bl -bullet -compact
48.It
49Adaptec AAC-364
50.It
51Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
52.It
53Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
54.It
55Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA
56.It
57Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
58.It
59Dell PERC 2/Si
60.It
61Dell PERC 2/QC
62.It
63Dell PERC 3/Di
64.It
65Dell PERC 3/Si
66.It
67Dell PERC 320/DC
68.It
69HP NetRAID 4M
70.Pp
71.El
72Access to RAID containers is available via the
73.Nm ld
74device driver.
75Individual drives cannot be accessed unless they are part of a container
76or volume set, and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.
77Containers can be configured by using either the on-board BIOS utility of
78the card.
79.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
80The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver.
81These messages are printed on the system console.
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr intro 4 ,
84.Xr ld 4
85.Sh HISTORY
86The
87.Nm
88driver first appeared in
89.Nx 1.6 .
90.Sh AUTHORS
91Mike Smith
92.Aq msmith@freebsd.org
93and
94Scott Long
95.Aq scottl@freebsd.org
96wrote the
97.Nm
98driver for
99.Fx ,
100and
101Andrew Doran
102.Aq ad@NetBSD.org
103ported it to
104.Nx .
105.Sh BUGS
106This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.
107The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS
108POST and driver attach messages.
109