1.\" $OpenBSD: ips.4,v 1.12 2009/03/24 08:43:54 grange Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2009 Alexander Yurchenko <grange@openbsd.org> 4.\" 5.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 6.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 7.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 8.\" 9.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 10.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 11.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 12.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 13.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 14.\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 15.\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 16.\" 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