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28.Dd November 21, 2001
29.Dt PST 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm pst
33.Nd Device driver for Promise Supertrak SX6000
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35Include this line in the kernel config file:
36.Cd device pst
37.Pp
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39This driver is for the Promise Supertrak SX6000 ATA hardware RAID controller.
40It supports (in hardware) RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5 and JBOD on up to
416 ATA disk drives, including automatic rebuild and hotswap, and supports
42signalling disk status on LED's on Promise Superswap disk enclosures.
43The Supertrak lines of controllers does not support non-disk devices.
44.Pp
45.Sh NOTES
46The
47.Nm
48driver does not support manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAID's need
49to be setup from the onboard BIOS. However hot swap, hot spare, and
50automatic rebuilds are supported without reboot.
51.Pp
52.Sh HISTORY
53The
54.Nm
55driver first appeared in
56.Fx 4.7 .
57.Sh AUTHORS
58.An -nosplit
59The
60.Nm
61driver and man page was written by
62.An S\(/oren Schmidt
63.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .
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