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25.Dd December 28, 2011
26.Dt HPT27XX 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm hpt27xx
30.Nd "HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx SAS 6Gb/s HBA card driver"
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32To compile this driver into the kernel,
33place the following line in your
34kernel configuration file:
35.Bd -ragged -offset indent
36.Cd "device hpt27xx"
37.Ed
38.Pp
39Alternatively, to load the driver as a
40module at boot time, place the following line in
41.Xr loader.conf 5 :
42.Bd -literal -offset indent
43hpt27xx_load="YES"
44.Ed
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for HighPoint's RocketRAID 27xx based RAID controller.
49.Pp
50These devices support SAS disk drives
51and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID5 functionality.
52.Sh HARDWARE
53The
54.Nm
55driver supports the following SAS
56controllers:
57.Pp
58.Bl -bullet -compact
59.It
60HighPoint's RocketRAID 271x series
61.It
62HighPoint's RocketRAID 272x series
63.It
64HighPoint's RocketRAID 274x series
65.It
66HighPoint's RocketRAID 276x series
67.It
68HighPoint's RocketRAID 278x series
69.El
70.Sh NOTES
71The
72.Nm
73driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary
74blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.
75The
76.Nm
77driver does
78.Em not
79work on i386 with
80.Xr pae 4
81enabled.
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr kld 4 ,
84.Xr kldload 8 ,
85.Xr loader 8
86.Sh HISTORY
87The
88.Nm
89device driver first appeared in
90.Fx 10.0 .
91.Sh AUTHORS
92.An -nosplit
93The
94.Nm
95device driver was written by
96.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. .
97This manual page was written by
98.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org
99for iXsystems, Inc.
100