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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd June 6, 2012
28.Dt HPTRR 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm hptrr
32.Nd "HighPoint RocketRAID 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 hptrr"
39.Cd "device scbus"
40.Cd "device da"
41.Ed
42.Pp
43Alternatively, to load the driver as a
44module at boot time, place the following line in
45.Xr loader.conf 5 :
46.Bd -literal -offset indent
47hptrr_load="YES"
48.Ed
49.Pp
50The following tunables are settable from the loader:
51.Bl -ohang
52.It Va hw.hptrr.attach_generic
53set to 1 to permit driver attach to chips with generic Marvell (non-HighPoint)
54PCI identification. These chips are also supported by
55.Xr ata 4
56and
57.Xr mvs 4 .
58Some vendors are using same chips, but without providing RAID BIOS.
59.El
60.Sh DESCRIPTION
61The
62.Nm
63driver provides support for HighPoint's RocketRAID based RAID controllers.
64.Pp
65These devices support SATA/ATA disk drives
66and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1 (mirroring), and RAID5 functionality.
67.Sh HARDWARE
68The
69.Nm
70driver supports the following RAID
71controllers:
72.Pp
73.Bl -bullet -compact
74.It
75RocketRAID 172x series
76.It
77RocketRAID 174x series
78.It
79RocketRAID 2210
80.It
81RocketRAID 222x series
82.It
83RocketRAID 2240
84.It
85RocketRAID 230x series
86.It
87RocketRAID 231x series
88.It
89RocketRAID 232x series
90.It
91RocketRAID 2340
92.It
93RocketRAID 2522
94.El
95.Sh NOTES
96The
97.Nm
98driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary
99blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.
100The
101.Nm
102driver does
103.Em not
104work on i386 with
105.Xr pae 4
106enabled.
107.Pp
108This driver does not support the RR182x series controller.
109See the
110.Xr hptmv 4
111manual page for details on support.
112.Pp
113This driver supersedes the older rr232x driver.
114.Sh SEE ALSO
115.Xr ata 4 ,
116.Xr cam 4 ,
117.Xr hptmv 4 ,
118.Xr mvs 4 ,
119.Xr loader 8
120.Sh HISTORY
121The
122.Nm
123device driver first appeared in
124.Fx 6.3 .
125.Sh AUTHORS
126.An -nosplit
127The
128.Nm
129device driver was written by
130.An HighPoint Technologies, Inc. ,
131and ported to
132.Fx
133by
134.An Scott Long .
135This manual page was written by
136.An David E. O'Brien .
137.Sh BUGS
138The
139.Nm
140driver does not support manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAIDs need
141to be set up from the on-board BIOS.
142