1.\" $NetBSD: ciss.4,v 1.6 2008/05/28 19:00:16 wiz Exp $ 2.\" Jonathan Stone, 2006. 3.\" 4.\" derived from: 5.\" $OpenBSD: ciss.4,v 1.4 2006/01/07 21:55:02 brad Exp $ 6.\" Michael Shalayeff, 2005. Public Domain. 7.\" 8.Dd May 28, 2008 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 P600 66.It 67HP Smart Array P800 68.It 69HP Smart Array V100 70.It 71HP Smart Array 1 through 13 72.El 73.Pp 74These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD, 75and superpositions of those configurations. 76.Pp 77Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers, 78the 79.Nm 80driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers. 81All RAID configuration must be done through the controllers' BIOSes. 82.Pp 83Hardware from previous generations of this product family may be 84supported by the 85.Xr cac 4 86driver. 87.Sh SEE ALSO 88.Xr bio 4 , 89.Xr cac 4 , 90.Xr intro 4 , 91.Xr pci 4 , 92.Xr scsi 4 , 93.Xr sd 4 94.Sh HISTORY 95The 96.Nm 97driver first appeared in 98.Nx 3.1 . 99.Sh AUTHORS 100.An -nosplit 101The 102.Nm 103driver was written by 104.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org , 105and ported to 106.Nx 107by 108.An Tonnerre Lombard Aq tonnerre@netbsd.org . 109