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3.\" Michael Shalayeff, 2000. Public Domain.
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5.Dd December 17, 2000
6.Dt CAC 4
7.Os
8.Sh NAME
9.Nm cac
10.Nd Compaq Smart ARRAY RAID controllers
11.Sh SYNOPSIS
12.Cd "cac* at pci?"
13.Cd "cac* at eisa?"
14.Cd "scsibus* at cac?"
15.Sh DESCRIPTION
16The
17.Nm
18driver provides support for the following RAID controllers:
19.Pp
20.Bl -bullet -compact
21.It
22Compaq Integrated Array
23.It
24Compaq IAES
25.It
26Compaq IDA
27.It
28Compaq IDA-2
29.It
30Compaq RAID LC2
31.It
32Compaq Smart Array 221
33.It
34Compaq Smart Array 3100ES
35.It
36Compaq Smart Array 3200
37.It
38Compaq Smart Array 4200
39.It
40Compaq Smart Array 4250ES
41.It
42Compaq Smart Array 431
43.It
44Compaq SMART
45.It
46Compaq SMART-2/E
47.It
48Compaq SMART-2/P
49.It
50Compaq SMART-2DH
51.It
52Compaq SMART-2SL
53.El
54.Pp
55All the RAID set volume management is done via the card BIOS.
56.Pp
57Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers the driver makes them
58look just like SCSI controllers.
59All RAID configuration is done through the controllers' BIOSes.
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr eisa 4 ,
62.Xr intro 4 ,
63.Xr pci 4 ,
64.Xr scsi 4 ,
65.Xr sd 4
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69driver first appeared in
70.Ox 2.9 .
71.Sh AUTHORS
72The
73.Nm
74driver was written by
75.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org ,
76inspired by the
77.Nx
78driver by
79.An Andrew Doran Aq ad@netbsd.org .
80.Sh BUGS
81The card provides a mechanism to receive asynchronous notifications
82about RAID set status change and so forth, unfortunately this
83information is not public.
84.Pp
85Only a few PCI cards were tested, but others should work.
86