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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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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 delphij@FreeBSD.org
101for iXsystems, Inc.
102