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