1.\" $NetBSD: ciss.4,v 1.2 2006/03/23 19:48:52 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 March 15, 2006 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.Cd "scsibus* at ciss?" 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18The 19.Nm 20driver provides support for the CISS interface implemented by fifth 21and later generations of the HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY family of 22controllers. 23.Pp 24The 25.Tn CISS 26interface is defined in the document entitled 27.Rs 28.%Q Compaq Computer Corporation 29.%T "CISS Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support Open Specification, Version 1.04, Valence Number 1" 30.%D 2000/11/27 31.Re 32.Pp 33This driver supports several Compaq and HP controllers implementing 34the CISS interface, including: 35.Pp 36.Bl -bullet -compact 37.It 38Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 1 39.It 40Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 2 41.It 42Compaq Smart Array 5i version 1 43.It 44Compaq Smart Array 5i version 2 45.It 46HP Smart Array 5312 47.It 48HP Smart Array 6i 49.It 50HP Smart Array 641 51.It 52HP Smart Array 642 53.It 54HP Smart Array 6400 55.It 56HP Smart Array 6400 EM 57.It 58HP Smart Array E200 59.It 60HP Smart Array E200i 61.It 62HP Smart Array P400 63.It 64HP Smart Array P400i 65.It 66HP Smart Array P600 67.It 68HP Smart Array P800 69.It 70HP Smart Array V100 71.It 72HP Smart Array 1 through 13 73.El 74.Pp 75These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD, 76and superpositions of those configurations. 77.Pp 78Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers, 79the 80.Nm 81driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers. 82All RAID configuration must be done through the controllers' BIOSes. 83.Pp 84Hardware from previous generations of this product family may be 85supported by the 86.Xr cac 4 87driver. 88.Sh SEE ALSO 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 4.0 . 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@thebsh.sygroup.ch . 109