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.\" from FreeBSD: aac.4,v 1.18 2001/09/27 21:52:42 scottl Exp
.Dd November 26, 2005
.Dt AAC 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm aac
.Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "aac* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Cd "ld* at aac? unit ?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI
and SATA RAID controllers.
These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and volume sets.
They have four channels in the add-in version
or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version,
and are most often found relabeled by Dell or Hewlett-Packard.
Supported controllers include:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
Adaptec AAC-364
.It
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
.It
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
.It
Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA
.It
Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
.It
Dell PERC 2/Si
.It
Dell PERC 2/QC
.It
Dell PERC 3/Di
.It
Dell PERC 3/Si
.It
Dell PERC 320/DC
.It
Dell CERC SATA RAID 1.5/6ch
.It
HP NetRAID 4M
.Pp
.El
Access to RAID containers is available via the
.Nm ld
device driver.
Individual drives cannot be accessed unless they are part of a container
or volume set, and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.
Containers can be configured by using either the on-board BIOS utility of
the card.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver.
These messages are printed on the system console.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr ld 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Nx 1.6 .
.Sh AUTHORS
Mike Smith
.Aq msmith@freebsd.org
and
Scott Long
.Aq scottl@freebsd.org
wrote the
.Nm
driver for
.Fx ,
and
Andrew Doran
.Aq ad@NetBSD.org
ported it to
.Nx .
.Sh BUGS
This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.
The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS
POST and driver attach messages.