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diff --git a/share/man/man4/mpt.4 b/share/man/man4/mpt.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f9659fd2334b --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/mpt.4 @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: mpt.4,v 1.1 2003/04/16 22:32:15 thorpej Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Written by Jason R. Thorpe for Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project by +.\" Wasabi Systems, Inc. +.\" 4. The name of Wasabi Systems, Inc. may not be used to endorse +.\" or promote products derived from this software without specific prior +.\" written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY WASABI SYSTEMS, INC. ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL WASABI SYSTEMS, INC +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd April 6, 2007 +.Dt MPT 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mpt +.Nd LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device scbus" +.Cd "device mpt" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +mpt_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support +for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of +.Tn SCSI , +.Tn Fibre Channel +and +.Tn SAS +controllers. +.Sh HARDWARE +The following controllers are supported by the +.Nm +driver: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +LSI Logic 53c1030, +LSI Logic LSI2x320-X +(Single and Dual Ultra320 +.Tn SCSI ) +.It +LSI Logic AS1064, +LSI Logic AS1068 +.Pq Tn SAS/SATA +.It +LSI Logic FC909 +(1Gb/s +.Tn Fibre Channel ) +.It +LSI Logic FC909A +(Dual 1Gb/s +.Tn Fibre Channel ) +.It +LSI Logic FC919, +LSI Logic 7102XP-LC +(Single 2Gb/s +.Tn Fibre Channel ) +.It +LSI Logic FC929, +LSI Logic FC929X, +LSI Logic 7202XP-LC +(Dual 2Gb/s +.Tn Fibre Channel ) +.It +LSI Logic FC949X +(Dual 4Gb/s +.Tn Fibre Channel ) +.It +LSI Logic FC949ES +(Dual 4Gb/s +.Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express) +.El +.Pp +The +.Tn Ultra 320 SCSI +controller chips supported by the +.Nm +driver can be found onboard on many systems including: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Dell PowerEdge 1750 thru 2850 +.It +IBM eServer xSeries 335 +.El +.Pp +These systems also contain Integrated Raid Mirroring and Integrated +Raid Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports. +.Pp +The +.Tn SAS +controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems, +like the Sun 4100. +Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA +drives or a mix of them at the same time. The Integrated Raid Mirroring +available for these controllers is poorly supported at best. +.Pp +The +.Tn Fibre Channel +controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems. +The +.Tn Apple +Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the +.Tn FC949ES +card. +.Pp +This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards. +This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via +the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card +can take on - no separate compilation is required. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr cd 4 , +.Xr ch 4 , +.Xr da 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr sa 4 , +.Xr scsi 4 , +.Xr targ 4 , +.Xr gmultipath 8 +.Rs +.%T "LSI Logic Website" +.%O http://www.lsilogic.com/ +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 4.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was originally written for +.Fx +by +.An Greg Ansley +and marginally improved upon +by +.An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org . +.Pp +.An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org +and +.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org +have made more substantial improvements. +.Sh BUGS |