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25.Dd November 17, 2005
26.Dt HPTMV 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm hptmv
30.Nd "HighPoint RocketRAID 182x device 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 hptmv"
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
43hptmv_load="YES"
44.Ed
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x based RAID controller.
49.Pp
50These devices support ATA disk drives
51and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID5 functionality.
52.Sh HARDWARE
53The
54.Nm
55driver supports the following ATA RAID
56controllers:
57.Pp
58.Bl -bullet -compact
59.It
60HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x series
61.El
62.Sh NOTES
63The
64.Nm
65driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary
66blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.
67The
68.Nm
69driver does
70.Em not
71work on i386 with
72.Xr pae 4
73enabled.
74.Sh SEE ALSO
75.Xr kld 4 ,
76.Xr kldload 8 ,
77.Xr loader 8
78.Sh HISTORY
79The
80.Nm
81device driver first appeared in
82.Fx 5.3 .
83.Sh AUTHORS
84.An -nosplit
85The
86.Nm
87device driver was written by
88.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. ,
89and ported to
90.Fx
91by
92.An Scott Long .
93This manual page was written by
94.An David E. O'Brien .
95.Sh BUGS
96The
97.Nm
98driver does not support manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAIDs need
99to be set up from the on-board BIOS.
100