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1.\"	$NetBSD: ciss.4,v 1.11 2020/07/14 17:39:19 jdolecek Exp $
2.\"	Jonathan Stone, 2006.
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4.\"	derived from:
5.\"	$OpenBSD: ciss.4,v 1.4 2006/01/07 21:55:02 brad Exp $
6.\"	Michael Shalayeff, 2005. Public Domain.
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8.Dd July 14, 2020
9.Dt CISS 4
10.Os
11.Sh NAME
12.Nm ciss
13.Nd HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 RAID controllers
14.Sh SYNOPSIS
15.Cd "ciss* at pci? function ?"
16.Sh DESCRIPTION
17The
18.Nm
19driver provides support for the CISS interface implemented by fifth
20and later generations of the HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY family of
21controllers.
22.Pp
23The
24.Tn CISS
25interface is defined in the document entitled
26.Rs
27.%Q Compaq Computer Corporation
28.%T "CISS Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support Open Specification, Version 1.04, Valence Number 1"
29.%D 2000/11/27
30.Re
31.Pp
32This driver supports several Compaq and HP controllers implementing
33the CISS interface, including:
34.Pp
35.Bl -bullet -compact
36.It
37Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 1
38.It
39Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 2
40.It
41Compaq Smart Array 5i version 1
42.It
43Compaq Smart Array 5i version 2
44.It
45HP Smart Array 5312
46.It
47HP Smart Array 6i
48.It
49HP Smart Array 641
50.It
51HP Smart Array 642
52.It
53HP Smart Array 6400
54.It
55HP Smart Array 6400 EM
56.It
57HP Smart Array E200
58.It
59HP Smart Array E200i
60.It
61HP Smart Array P400
62.It
63HP Smart Array P400i
64.It
65HP Smart Array P410i
66.It
67HP Smart Array P600
68.It
69HP Smart Array P800
70.It
71HP Smart Array V100
72.It
73HP Smart Array 1 through 14
74.It
75HP Smart Array P700m
76.It
77HP Smart Array P212
78.It
79HP Smart Array P410
80.It
81HP Smart Array P410i
82.It
83HP Smart Array P411
84.It
85HP Smart Array P822
86.It
87HP Smart Array P712m
88.It
89HP Smart Array P222
90.It
91HP Smart Array P420
92.It
93HP Smart Array P421
94.It
95HP Smart Array P822
96.It
97HP Smart Array P420i
98.It
99HP Smart Array P220i
100.It
101HP Smart Array P721i
102.It
103HP Smart Array P430i
104.It
105HP Smart Array P830i
106.It
107HP Smart Array P430
108.It
109HP Smart Array P431
110.It
111HP Smart Array P830
112.It
113HP Smart Array P731m
114.It
115HP Smart Array P230i
116.It
117HP Smart Array P530
118.It
119HP Smart Array P531
120.It
121HP Smart Array P244br
122.It
123HP Smart Array P741m
124.It
125HP Smart Array H240ar
126.It
127HP Smart Array H440ar
128.It
129HP Smart Array P840ar
130.It
131HP Smart Array P440
132.It
133HP Smart Array P441
134.It
135HP Smart Array P841
136.It
137HP Smart Array H244br
138.It
139HP Smart Array H240
140.It
141HP Smart Array H241
142.It
143HP Smart Array P246br
144.It
145HP Smart Array P840
146.It
147HP Smart Array P542d
148.It
149HP Smart Array P240nr
150.It
151HP Smart Array H240nr
152.El
153.Pp
154These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD,
155and superpositions of those configurations.
156.Pp
157Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
158the
159.Nm
160driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
161All RAID configuration must be done through the controllers' BIOSes.
162.Pp
163Hardware from previous generations of this product family may be
164supported by the
165.Xr cac 4
166driver.
167.Sh SEE ALSO
168.Xr bio 4 ,
169.Xr cac 4 ,
170.Xr intro 4 ,
171.Xr pci 4 ,
172.Xr scsi 4 ,
173.Xr sd 4
174.Sh HISTORY
175The
176.Nm
177driver first appeared in
178.Nx 3.1 .
179.Sh AUTHORS
180.An -nosplit
181The
182.Nm
183driver was written by
184.An Michael Shalayeff Aq Mt mickey@openbsd.org ,
185and ported to
186.Nx
187by
188.An Tonnerre Lombard Aq Mt tonnerre@netbsd.org .
189