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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