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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
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following line in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device hptmv"
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
45hptmv_load="YES"
46.Ed
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides support for HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x based RAID controller.
51.Pp
52These devices support ATA disk drives
53and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID5 functionality.
54.Sh HARDWARE
55The
56.Nm
57driver supports the following ATA RAID
58controllers:
59.Pp
60.Bl -bullet -compact
61.It
62HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x series
63.El
64.Sh NOTES
65The
66.Nm
67driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary
68blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.
69The
70.Nm
71driver does
72.Em not
73work on i386 with
74.Xr pae 4
75enabled.
76.Sh SEE ALSO
77.Xr kld 4 ,
78.Xr kldload 8 ,
79.Xr loader 8
80.Sh HISTORY
81The
82.Nm
83device driver first appeared in
84.Fx 5.3 .
85.Sh AUTHORS
86.An -nosplit
87The
88.Nm
89device driver was written by
90.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. ,
91and ported to
92.Fx
93by
94.An Scott Long .
95This manual page was written by
96.An David E. O'Brien .
97.Sh BUGS
98The
99.Nm
100driver does not support manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAIDs need
101to be set up from the on-board BIOS.
102