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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
35.Cd device pst
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37This driver is for the Promise Supertrak SX6000 ATA hardware RAID controller.
38It supports (in hardware) RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5 and JBOD on up to
396 ATA disk drives, including automatic rebuild and hotswap, and supports
40signalling disk status on LEDs on Promise Superswap disk enclosures.
41The Supertrak line of controllers does not support non-disk devices.
42.Sh NOTES
43The
44.Nm
45driver does not support manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAIDs need
46to be set up from the onboard BIOS.
47However, hot swap, hot spare, and
48automatic rebuilds are supported without a reboot.
49.Sh HISTORY
50The
51.Nm
52driver first appeared in
53.Fx 4.7 .
54.Sh AUTHORS
55The
56.Nm
57driver and man page was written by
58.An S\(/oren Schmidt
59.Aq sos@FreeBSD.org .
60