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3.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Michael Shalayeff.  All rights reserved.
4.\" Public Domain.
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6.Dd March 9, 2001
7.Dt AMI 4
8.Os
9.Sh NAME
10.Nm ami
11.Nd American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID Controllers
12.Sh SYNOPSIS
13.Cd "ami* at pci? dev ? function ?"
14.Cd "scsibus* at ami?"
15.Sh DESCRIPTION
16The
17.Nm
18driver provides support for MegaRAID family of RAID controllers.
19.Pp
20These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD
21and superpositions of those configurations.
22.Pp
23Some cards support both I2O and so called `Mass Storage' mode
24of operation.
25This driver only supports the `Mass Storage' mode, I2O mode is supported
26by the
27.Xr iop 4
28driver.
29.Pp
30Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers the driver makes them
31look just like SCSI controllers.
32All RAID configuration is done through the controllers' BIOSes.
33.Sh SEE ALSO
34.Xr intro 4 ,
35.Xr iop 4 ,
36.Xr pci 4 ,
37.Xr scsi 4 ,
38.Xr sd 4
39.Sh HISTORY
40The
41.Nm
42driver first appeared in
43.Ox 2.9 .
44.Sh AUTHORS
45The
46.Nm
47driver was written by
48.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
49.Sh BUGS
50The
51.Tn IDE
52versions of these controllers were not tested.
53