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26.Dd $Mdocdate: April 1 2009 $
27.Dt MFI 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm mfi
31.Nd LSI Logic & Dell MegaRAID SAS RAID controller
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "mfi* at pci?"
34.Cd "scsibus* at mfi?"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver provides support for the MegaRAID SAS family of RAID controllers,
39including:
40.Pp
41.Bl -dash -offset indent -compact
42.It
43Dell PERC 5/e,
44PERC 5/i,
45PERC 6/e,
46PERC 6/i
47.It
48Intel RAID Controller SRCSAS18E,
49SRCSAS144E
50.It
51LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP,
52MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP,
53MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP,
54MegaRAID SAS 8408E,
55MegaRAID SAS 8480E,
56MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP,
57MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2
58.El
59.Pp
60These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50 and
61RAID 60 using either SAS or SATA II drives.
62.Pp
63Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
64the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
65All RAID configuration is done through the controllers' BIOSes.
66.Sh SEE ALSO
67.Xr bio 4 ,
68.Xr intro 4 ,
69.Xr pci 4 ,
70.Xr scsi 4 ,
71.Xr sd 4 ,
72.Xr bioctl 8 ,
73.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
74.Xr sysctl 8
75.Sh HISTORY
76The
77.Nm
78driver first appeared in
79.Ox 4.0 .
80.Sh AUTHORS
81.An -nosplit
82The
83.Nm
84driver was written by
85.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .
86