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IN NO EVENT SHALL WASABI SYSTEMS, INC 28.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 29.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 30.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 31.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 32.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 33.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 34.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 35.\" 36.Dd January 16, 2021 37.Dt MPT 4 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm mpt 41.Nd LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43To compile this driver into the kernel, 44place the following lines in your 45kernel configuration file: 46.Bd -ragged -offset indent 47.Cd "device scbus" 48.Cd "device mpt" 49.Ed 50.Pp 51Alternatively, to load the driver as a 52module at boot time, place the following line in 53.Xr loader.conf 5 : 54.Bd -literal -offset indent 55mpt_load="YES" 56.Ed 57.Sh DESCRIPTION 58The 59.Nm 60driver provides support 61for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of 62.Tn SCSI , 63.Tn Fibre Channel 64and 65.Tn SAS 66controllers. 67.Sh HARDWARE 68The following controllers are supported by the 69.Nm 70driver: 71.Pp 72.Bl -bullet -compact 73.It 74LSI Logic 53c1030, 75LSI Logic LSI2x320-X 76(Single and Dual Ultra320 77.Tn SCSI ) 78.It 79LSI Logic AS1064, 80LSI Logic AS1068 81.Pq Tn SAS/SATA 82.It 83LSI Logic FC909 84(1Gb/s 85.Tn Fibre Channel ) 86.It 87LSI Logic FC909A 88(Dual 1Gb/s 89.Tn Fibre Channel ) 90.It 91LSI Logic FC919, 92LSI Logic 7102XP-LC 93(Single 2Gb/s 94.Tn Fibre Channel ) 95.It 96LSI Logic FC929, 97LSI Logic FC929X, 98LSI Logic 7202XP-LC 99(Dual 2Gb/s 100.Tn Fibre Channel ) 101.It 102LSI Logic FC949X 103(Dual 4Gb/s 104.Tn Fibre Channel ) 105.It 106LSI Logic FC949E, 107LSI Logic FC949ES 108(Dual 4Gb/s 109.Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express) 110.El 111.Pp 112The 113.Tn Ultra 320 SCSI 114controller chips supported by the 115.Nm 116driver can be found onboard on many systems including: 117.Pp 118.Bl -bullet -compact 119.It 120Dell PowerEdge 1750 through 2850 121.It 122IBM eServer xSeries 335 123.El 124.Pp 125These systems also contain Integrated RAID Mirroring and Integrated 126RAID Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports. 127.Pp 128The 129.Tn SAS 130controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems, 131like the Sun 4100. 132Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA 133drives or a mix of them at the same time. 134The Integrated RAID Mirroring 135available for these controllers is poorly supported at best. 136.Pp 137The 138.Tn Fibre Channel 139controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems. 140The 141.Tn Apple 142Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the 143.Tn FC949ES 144card. 145.Pp 146This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards. 147This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via 148the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card 149can take on - no separate compilation is required. 150.Sh WARNINGS 151Most controllers supported by the 152.Nm 153driver suffer from limitations on supported disk size (mostly <2TB). 154While most controllers will truncate usable disk size, others might 155behave unexpectedly and can cause severe data loss. 156Refer to the datasheet of the chipset and firmware version for information 157about supported disk size and limitations. 158.Sh SEE ALSO 159.Xr cd 4 , 160.Xr ch 4 , 161.Xr da 4 , 162.Xr mps 4 , 163.Xr pci 4 , 164.Xr sa 4 , 165.Xr scsi 4 , 166.Xr targ 4 , 167.Xr gmultipath 8 , 168.Xr mptutil 8 169.Rs 170.%T "LSI Logic Website" 171.%U http://www.lsi.com/ 172.Re 173.Sh HISTORY 174The 175.Nm 176driver first appeared in 177.Fx 4.6 . 178.Sh AUTHORS 179.An -nosplit 180The 181.Nm 182driver was originally written for 183.Fx 184by 185.An Greg Ansley 186and marginally improved upon 187by 188.An Matt Jacob Aq Mt mjacob@FreeBSD.org . 189.Pp 190.An Justin Gibbs Aq Mt gibbs@FreeBSD.org 191and 192.An Scott Long Aq Mt scottl@FreeBSD.org 193have made more substantial improvements. 194