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3.\" Michael Shalayeff, 2005. Public Domain.
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5.Dd $Mdocdate: November 17 2008 $
6.Dt CISS 4
7.Os
8.Sh NAME
9.Nm ciss
10.Nd Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID controller
11.Sh SYNOPSIS
12.Cd "ciss* at pci?"
13.Cd "scsibus* at ciss?"
14.Sh DESCRIPTION
15The
16.Nm
17driver provides support for the Compaq Smart ARRAY 5th and 6th
18family of RAID controllers, including:
19.Pp
20.Bl -bullet -width Ds -offset indent -compact
21.It
22Compaq 532, 5300, 5312, 5i
23.It
24Compaq 641, 642, 6400, 6400EM, 6422
25.It
26Hewlett-Packard 6i, E200, E200i, E500, P212, P400, P400i, P410, P410i,
27P411, P600, P711m, P712m, P800, P812, V100
28.El
29.Pp
30These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD,
31and superpositions of those configurations.
32.Pp
33Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
34the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
35All RAID configuration is done through the controllers' BIOSes.
36.Pp
37Monitoring status for the volume and drives in it is done through the
38.Xr bioctl 8
39utility;
40the current status is provided by the
41.Xr sysctl 8
42variable
43.Va hw.sensors .
44.Sh SEE ALSO
45.Xr bio 4 ,
46.Xr intro 4 ,
47.Xr pci 4 ,
48.Xr scsi 4 ,
49.Xr sd 4 ,
50.Xr bioctl 8 ,
51.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
52.Xr sysctl 8
53.Sh HISTORY
54The
55.Nm
56driver first appeared in
57.Ox 3.8 .
58.Sh AUTHORS
59The
60.Nm
61driver was written by
62.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
63.Sh CAVEATS
64For purposes of status monitoring,
65the current code only supports one logical
66volume per controller.
67