Jonathan Stone, 2006.
derived from:
$OpenBSD: ciss.4,v 1.4 2006/01/07 21:55:02 brad Exp $
Michael Shalayeff, 2005. Public Domain.
.Dd November 2, 2007 .Dt CISS 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm ciss .Nd HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 RAID controllers .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "ciss* at pci? function ?" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for the CISS interface implemented by fifth and later generations of the HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY family of controllers.
p The .Tn CISS interface is defined in the document entitled .Rs .%Q Compaq Computer Corporation .%T "CISS Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support Open Specification, Version 1.04, Valence Number 1" .%D 2000/11/27 .Re
p This driver supports several Compaq and HP controllers implementing the CISS interface, including:
p l -bullet -compact t Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 1 t Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 2 t Compaq Smart Array 5i version 1 t Compaq Smart Array 5i version 2 t HP Smart Array 5312 t HP Smart Array 6i t HP Smart Array 641 t HP Smart Array 642 t HP Smart Array 6400 t HP Smart Array 6400 EM t HP Smart Array E200 t HP Smart Array E200i t HP Smart Array P400 t HP Smart Array P400i t HP Smart Array P600 t HP Smart Array P800 t HP Smart Array V100 t HP Smart Array 1 through 13 .El
p These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD, and superpositions of those configurations.
p Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers, the .Nm driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers. All RAID configuration must be done through the controllers' BIOSes.
p Hardware from previous generations of this product family may be supported by the .Xr cac 4 driver. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cac 4 , .Xr intro 4 , .Xr pci 4 , .Xr scsi 4 , .Xr sd 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Nx 3.1 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Nm driver was written by .An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org , and ported to .Nx by .An Tonnerre Lombard Aq tonnerre@thebsh.sygroup.ch .