1.\" $OpenBSD: ips.4,v 1.18 2022/02/19 23:45:51 jsg 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: February 19 2022 $ 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 49RAID management is done through the 50.Xr bio 4 51device with the 52.Xr bioctl 8 53command. 54Logical disk status is exposed under the 55.Va hw.sensors 56.Xr sysctl 8 57and can be monitored using 58.Xr sensorsd 8 . 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Xr bio 4 , 61.Xr intro 4 , 62.Xr pci 4 , 63.Xr scsi 4 , 64.Xr sd 4 , 65.Xr bioctl 8 , 66.Xr sensorsd 8 , 67.Xr sysctl 8 68.Pp 69.Lk https://www.ibm.com 70.Sh HISTORY 71The 72.Nm 73driver first appeared in 74.Ox 4.1 . 75.Sh AUTHORS 76.An -nosplit 77The 78.Nm 79driver was written by 80.An Alexander Yurchenko Aq Mt grange@openbsd.org . 81.Sh CAVEATS 82Due to 83.Xr bioctl 8 84limitations the 85.Nm 86driver associates all unused and hot spare drives with the first volume 87but the drives can be used for rebuilding any degraded volume. 88