1.\" $OpenBSD: ips.4,v 1.16 2013/07/16 16:05:49 schwarze Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2009 Alexander Yurchenko <grange@openbsd.org> 4.\" 5.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 6.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 7.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 8.\" 9.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 10.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 11.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 12.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 13.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 14.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 15.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 16.\" 17.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $ 18.Dt IPS 4 19.Os 20.Sh NAME 21.Nm ips 22.Nd IBM SATA/SCSI ServeRAID controller 23.Sh SYNOPSIS 24.Cd "ips* at pci?" 25.Sh DESCRIPTION 26The 27.Nm 28driver provides support for IBM ServeRAID controllers, including: 29.Pp 30.Bl -bullet -width Ds -offset indent -compact 31.It 32ServeRAID 3H/3HB/3L 33.It 34ServeRAID 4H/4L/4Lx/4M/4Mx 35.It 36ServeRAID 5i/5i II 37.It 38ServeRAID 6i/6M 39.It 40ServeRAID 7k/7M/7t 41.El 42.Pp 43Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers, 44the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers. 45All RAID configuration is done through the bootable 46IBM ServeRAID Support CD; 47a CD image is freely available at the IBM website. 48.Pp 49The management interface is provided through the 50.Xr bio 4 51device or one of the daughter 52.Xr sd 4 53devices as implemented in the 54.Xr bioctl 8 55utility. 56Logical disk status is exposed under the 57.Va hw.sensors 58.Xr sysctl 8 59and can be monitored using 60.Xr sensorsd 8 . 61.Sh SEE ALSO 62.Xr bio 4 , 63.Xr intro 4 , 64.Xr pci 4 , 65.Xr scsi 4 , 66.Xr sd 4 , 67.Xr bioctl 8 , 68.Xr sensorsd 8 , 69.Xr sysctl 8 70.Pp 71.Lk http://www.ibm.com 72.Sh HISTORY 73The 74.Nm 75driver first appeared in 76.Ox 4.1 . 77.Sh AUTHORS 78.An -nosplit 79The 80.Nm 81driver was written by 82.An Alexander Yurchenko Aq Mt grange@openbsd.org . 83.Sh CAVEATS 84Due to 85.Xr bioctl 8 86limitations the 87.Nm 88driver associates all unused and hot spare drives with the first volume 89but the drives can be used for rebuilding any degraded volume. 90