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17.Dd $Mdocdate: March 24 2009 $
18.Dt IPS 4
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm ips
22.Nd IBM SATA/SCSI ServeRAID controller
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.Cd "ips* at pci?"
25.Cd "scsibus* at ips?"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for IBM ServeRAID controllers, including:
30.Pp
31.Bl -bullet -width Ds -offset indent -compact
32.It
33ServeRAID 3H/3HB/3L
34.It
35ServeRAID 4H/4L/4Lx/4M/4Mx
36.It
37ServeRAID 5i/5i II
38.It
39ServeRAID 6i/6M
40.It
41ServeRAID 7k/7M/7t
42.El
43.Pp
44Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
45the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
46All RAID configuration is done through the bootable
47IBM ServeRAID Support CD;
48a CD image is freely available at the IBM website.
49.Pp
50The management interface is provided through the
51.Xr bio 4
52device or one of the daughter
53.Xr sd 4
54devices as implemented in the
55.Xr bioctl 8
56utility.
57Logical disk status is exposed under the
58.Va hw.sensors
59.Xr sysctl 8
60and can be monitored using
61.Xr sensorsd 8 .
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr bio 4 ,
64.Xr intro 4 ,
65.Xr pci 4 ,
66.Xr scsi 4 ,
67.Xr sd 4 ,
68.Xr bioctl 8 ,
69.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
70.Xr sysctl 8
71.Pp
72.Pa http://www.ibm.com
73.Sh HISTORY
74The
75.Nm
76driver first appeared in
77.Ox 4.1 .
78.Sh AUTHORS
79.An -nosplit
80The
81.Nm
82driver was written by
83.An Alexander Yurchenko Aq grange@openbsd.org .
84.Sh CAVEATS
85Due to
86.Xr bioctl 8
87limitations the
88.Nm
89driver associates all unused and hot spare drives with the first volume
90but the drives can be used for rebuilding any degraded volume.
91