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25.Dd July 5, 2013
26.Dt HPTNR 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm hptnr
30.Nd "HighPoint DC Series Data Center HBA card 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 hptnr"
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
43hptnr_load="YES"
44.Ed
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for HighPoint's DC Series Data Center HBA card.
49.Sh HARDWARE
50The
51.Nm
52driver supports the following SATA
53controllers:
54.Pp
55.Bl -bullet -compact
56.It
57HighPoint's DC7280 series
58.It
59HighPoint's Rocket R750 series
60.El
61.Sh NOTES
62The
63.Nm
64driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary
65blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.
66The
67.Nm
68driver does
69.Em not
70work on i386 with
71.Xr pae 4
72enabled.
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.Xr kld 4 ,
75.Xr kldload 8 ,
76.Xr loader 8
77.Sh HISTORY
78The
79.Nm
80device driver first appeared in
81.Fx 9.2 .
82.Sh AUTHORS
83.An -nosplit
84The
85.Nm
86device driver was written by
87.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. .
88This manual page was written by
89.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org
90for iXsystems, Inc.
91