1 .\" $NetBSD: ciss.4,v 1.5 2008/05/28 17:53:25 tonnerre Exp $
2 .\" Jonathan Stone, 2006.
5 .\" $OpenBSD: ciss.4,v 1.4 2006/01/07 21:55:02 brad Exp $
6 .\" Michael Shalayeff, 2005. Public Domain.
13 .Nd HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 RAID controllers
15 .Cd "ciss* at pci? function ?"
19 driver provides support for the CISS interface implemented by fifth
20 and later generations of the HP/Compaq Smart ARRAY family of
25 interface is defined in the document entitled
27 .%Q Compaq Computer Corporation
28 .%T "CISS Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support Open Specification, Version 1.04, Valence Number 1"
32 This driver supports several Compaq and HP controllers implementing
33 the CISS interface, including:
37 Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 1
39 Compaq Smart Array 5300 version 2
41 Compaq Smart Array 5i version 1
43 Compaq Smart Array 5i version 2
55 HP Smart Array 6400 EM
71 HP Smart Array 1 through 13
74 These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD,
75 and superpositions of those configurations.
77 Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
80 driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
81 All RAID configuration must be done through the controllers' BIOSes.
83 Hardware from previous generations of this product family may be
97 driver first appeared in
103 driver was written by
104 .An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org ,
108 .An Tonnerre Lombard Aq tonnerre@netbsd.org .