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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd November 17, 2005
28.Dt HPTMV 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm hptmv
32.Nd "HighPoint RocketRAID 182x device driver"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "device hptmv"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38driver provides support for HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x based RAID controller.
39.Pp
40These devices support ATA disk drives
41and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID5 functionality.
42.Sh HARDWARE
43The
44.Nm
45driver supports the following ATA RAID
46controllers:
47.Pp
48.Bl -bullet -compact
49.It
50HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x series
51.El
52.Sh NOTES
53The
54.Nm
55driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary
56blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.
57The
58.Nm
59driver
60.Em does not
61work on i386 with
62.Xr pae 4
63enabled.
64.Sh SEE ALSO
65.Xr kld 4 ,
66.Xr kldload 8 ,
67.Xr loader 8
68.Sh HISTORY
69The
70.Nm
71device driver first appeared in
72.Fx 5.3 .
73.Sh AUTHORS
74.An -nosplit
75The
76.Nm
77device driver was written by
78.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. ,
79and ported to
80.Fx
81by
82.An Scott Long .
83This manual page was written by
84.An David E. O'Brien .
85.Sh BUGS
86The
87.Nm
88driver does not support manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAIDs need
89to be set up from the on-board BIOS.
90