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26.Dd $Mdocdate: April 1 2010 $
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,
47PERC H700,
48PERC H800
49.It
50Intel RAID Controller SRCSAS18E,
51SRCSAS144E
52.It
53LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP,
54MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP,
55MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP,
56MegaRAID SAS 8408E,
57MegaRAID SAS 8480E,
58MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP,
59MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2
60.El
61.Pp
62These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50 and
63RAID 60 using either SAS or SATA II drives.
64.Pp
65Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
66the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
67All RAID configuration is done through the controllers' BIOSes.
68.Sh SEE ALSO
69.Xr bio 4 ,
70.Xr intro 4 ,
71.Xr pci 4 ,
72.Xr scsi 4 ,
73.Xr sd 4 ,
74.Xr bioctl 8 ,
75.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
76.Xr sysctl 8
77.Sh HISTORY
78The
79.Nm
80driver first appeared in
81.Ox 4.0 .
82.Sh AUTHORS
83.An -nosplit
84The
85.Nm
86driver was written by
87.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .
88