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1.\"	$OpenBSD: ami.4,v 1.7 2001/08/05 22:32:34 brad Exp $
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3.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Michael Shalayeff.  All rights reserved.
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6.Dd March 9, 2001
7.Dt AMI 4
8.Os
9.Sh NAME
10.Nm ami
11.Nd American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID Controllers
12.Sh SYNOPSIS
13.Cd "ami* at pci? dev ? function ?"
14.Cd "scsibus* at ami?"
15.Sh DESCRIPTION
16The
17.Nm
18driver provides support for MegaRAID family of RAID controllers.
19.Pp
20These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD
21and superpositions of those configurations.
22.Pp
23Some cards support both I2O and so called `Mass Storage' mode
24of operation. This driver only supports the `Mass Storage' mode, I2O
25mode is supported by the
26.Xr iop 4
27driver.
28.Pp
29Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers the driver makes them
30look just like SCSI controllers.  All RAID configuration is done through
31the controllers' BIOSes.
32.Xr iop 4
33driver.
34.Sh SEE ALSO
35.Xr intro 4 ,
36.Xr iop 4 ,
37.Xr scsi 4 ,
38.Xr sd 4
39.Sh AUTHORS
40The
41.Nm
42driver was written by
43.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
44.Sh HISTORY
45The
46.Nm
47driver first appeared in
48.Ox 2.9 .
49