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25.\" $FreeBSD$
26.Dd Augyst 12, 2004
27.Dt AAC 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm aac
31.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd options AAC_DEBUG=N
34.Cd device pci
35.Cd device aac
36.Cd device aacp
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI Ultra2, Ultra160,
41and Ultra320, and SATA RAID controllers.
42.Pp
43Access to RAID containers is available via the
44.Pa /dev/aacd?
45device nodes.
46The
47.Nm aacp
48device enables the SCSI pass-thru interface and allows devices connected
49to the card such as cdroms to be available via the CAM
50.Xr scsi 4
51subsystem.
52Note that not all cards allow this interface to be enabled.
53.Pp
54The
55.Pa /dev/aac?
56device nodes provide access to the management interface of the controller.
57One node exists per installed card.
58The aliases
59.Pa /dev/afa?
60and
61.Pa /dev/hpn?
62exist for compatibilty with the Dell and HP versions of management tools,
63respectively.
64If the kernel is compiled with the
65.Dv COMPAT_LINUX
66option, or the
67.Pa aac_linux.ko
68and
69.Pa linux.ko
70modules are loaded, the
71Linux-compatible
72.Xr ioctl 2
73interface for the management device will be enabled and will allow
74Linux-based management applications to control the card.
75.Ss Tuning
76The read-only sysctl
77.Va hw.aac.iosize_max
78defaults to 65536 and may be set at boot time to another value via
79.Xr loader 8 .
80This value determines the maximum data transfer size allowed
81to/from an array.
82Setting it higher will result in better performance,
83especially for large sequential access patterns.
84.Em Beware :
85internal limitations
86of the card limit this value to 64K for arrays with many members.
87While it may be safe to raise this value, this is done
88.Em at the operator's own risk .
89Note also that
90performance peaks at a value of 96K,
91and drops off dramatically at 128K,
92due to other limitations of the card.
93.Sh HARDWARE
94Controllers supported by the
95.Nm
96driver include:
97.Pp
98.Bl -bullet -compact
99.It
100Adaptec AAC-364
101.It
102Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
103.It
104Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S
105.It
106Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
107.It
108Adaptec SCSI RAID 2410SA
109.It
110Adaptec SCSI RAID 2810SA
111.It
112Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
113.It
114Dell CERC SATA RAID 2
115.It
116Dell PERC 2/Si
117.It
118Dell PERC 2/QC
119.It
120Dell PERC 3/Si
121.It
122Dell PERC 3/Di
123.It
124Dell PERC 320/DC
125.It
126HP NetRAID 4M
127.El
128.Sh FILES
129.Bl -tag -width /boot/kernel/aac.ko -compact
130.It Pa /dev/aac?
131aac management interface
132.It Pa /dev/aacd?
133disk/container interface
134.It Pa /boot/kernel/aac.ko
135aac loadable module
136.El
137.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
138Compiling with
139.Dv AAC_DEBUG
140set to a number between 0 and 3
141will enable increasingly verbose debug messages.
142.Pp
143The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously
144to the driver.
145These messages are printed on the system console,
146and are also queued for retrieval by a management application.
147.Sh SEE ALSO
148.Xr kld 4 ,
149.Xr linux 4 ,
150.Xr scsi 4 ,
151.Xr kldload 8 ,
152.Xr loader 8 ,
153.Xr sysctl 8
154.Sh HISTORY
155The
156.Nm
157driver first appeared in
158.Fx 4.3 .
159.Sh AUTHORS
160.An Mike Smith
161.Aq msmith@FreeBSD.org
162.An Scott Long
163.Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
164.Sh BUGS
165This driver is not compatible with Dell controllers that have version 1.x
166firmware.
167The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS
168POST and driver attach messages.
169.Pp
170The controller is not actually paused on suspend/resume.
171.Pp
172