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38.Dd June 5, 2006
39.Dt MPT 4
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm mpt
43.Nd LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45To compile this driver into the kernel,
46place the following lines in your
47kernel configuration file:
48.Bd -ragged -offset indent
49.Cd "device scbus"
50.Cd "device mpt"
51.Ed
52.Pp
53Alternatively, to load the driver as a
54module at boot time, place the following line in
55.Xr loader.conf 5 :
56.Bd -literal -offset indent
57mpt_load="YES"
58.Ed
59.Sh DESCRIPTION
60The
61.Nm
62driver provides support
63for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of
64.Tn SCSI ,
65.Tn Fibre Channel
66and
67.Tn SAS
68controllers.
69.Sh HARDWARE
70The following controllers are supported by the
71.Nm
72driver:
73.Pp
74.Bl -bullet -compact
75.It
76LSI Logic 53c1030,
77LSI Logic LSI2x320-X
78(Single and Dual Ultra320
79.Tn SCSI )
80.It
81LSI Logic AS1064,
82LSI Logic AS1068
83(
84.Tn SAS/SATA )
85.It
86LSI Logic FC909
87(1Gb/s
88.Tn Fibre Channel )
89.It
90LSI Logic FC909A
91(Dual 1Gb/s
92.Tn Fibre Channel )
93.It
94LSI Logic FC919,
95LSI Logic 7102XP-LC
96(Single 2Gb/s
97.Tn Fibre Channel )
98.It
99LSI Logic FC929,
100LSI Logic FC929X,
101LSI Logic 7202XP-LC
102(Dual 2Gb/s
103.Tn Fibre Channel )
104.It
105LSI Logic FC949X
106(Dual 4Gb/s
107.Tn Fibre Channel )
108.El
109.Pp
110The
111.Tn SCSI
112controller chips supported by the
113.Nm
114driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
115.Pp
116.Bl -bullet -compact
117.It
118Dell PowerEdge 1750 thru 2850
119.It
120IBM eServer xSeries 335
121.El
122.Pp
123These systems also contain Integrated Raid Mirroring and Integrated
124Raid Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports.
125.Pp
126The
127.Tn SAS
128controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems,
129like the Sun 4100.
130Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA
131drives or a mix of them at the same time.
132.Pp
133This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards.
134This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via
135the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card
136can take on - no separate compilation is required.
137.Sh SEE ALSO
138.Xr cd 4 ,
139.Xr ch 4 ,
140.Xr da 4 ,
141.Xr pci 4 ,
142.Xr sa 4 ,
143.Xr scsi 4 ,
144.Xr targ 4
145.Rs
146.%T "LSI Logic Website"
147.%O http://www.lsilogic.com/
148.Re
149.Sh BUGS
150.Pp
151This driver has been reported to have problems under the VMware ESX server.
152.Pp
153This driver does not yet work on big endian machines like Sparc64.
154.Sh HISTORY
155The
156.Nm
157driver first appeared in
158.Fx 4.6 .
159.Sh AUTHORS
160.An -nosplit
161The
162.Nm
163driver was originally written for
164.Fx
165by
166.An Greg Ansley
167and substantially improved upon
168by
169.An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org
170and
171.An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org .
172