1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2011 iXsystems, Inc. 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 16.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 17.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 18.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 19.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 20.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 21.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 22.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd December 28, 2011 28.Dt HPT27XX 4 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm hpt27xx 32.Nd "HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx SAS 6Gb/s HBA card driver" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34To compile this driver into the kernel, 35place the following line in your 36kernel configuration file: 37.Bd -ragged -offset indent 38.Cd "device hpt27xx" 39.Ed 40.Pp 41Alternatively, to load the driver as a 42module at boot time, place the following line in 43.Xr loader.conf 5 : 44.Bd -literal -offset indent 45hpt27xx_load="YES" 46.Ed 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50driver provides support for HighPoint's RocketRAID 27xx based RAID controller. 51.Pp 52These devices support SAS disk drives 53and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID5 functionality. 54.Sh HARDWARE 55The 56.Nm 57driver supports the following SAS 58controllers: 59.Pp 60.Bl -bullet -compact 61.It 62HighPoint's RocketRAID 271x series 63.It 64HighPoint's RocketRAID 272x series 65.It 66HighPoint's RocketRAID 274x series 67.It 68HighPoint's RocketRAID 276x series 69.It 70HighPoint's RocketRAID 278x series 71.El 72.Sh NOTES 73The 74.Nm 75driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary 76blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms. 77The 78.Nm 79driver does 80.Em not 81work on i386 with 82.Xr pae 4 83enabled. 84.Sh SEE ALSO 85.Xr kld 4 , 86.Xr kldload 8 , 87.Xr loader 8 88.Sh HISTORY 89The 90.Nm 91device driver first appeared in 92.Fx 10.0 . 93.Sh AUTHORS 94.An -nosplit 95The 96.Nm 97device driver was written by 98.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. . 99This manual page was written by 100.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org 101for iXsystems, Inc. 102