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33 .Nd Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver
35 .Cd "aac* at pci? dev ? function ?"
36 .Cd "ld* at aac? unit ?"
40 driver provides support for the Adaptec AAC family of SCSI
41 and SATA RAID controllers.
42 These controllers support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and volume sets.
43 They have four channels in the add-in version
44 or 1-2 channels in the motherboard integrated version,
45 and are most often found rebadged by Dell, Hewlett-Packard or IBM.
46 Supported controllers include:
52 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
54 Adaptec SCSI RAID 2200S
56 Adaptec SATA RAID 2410SA
58 Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S
70 Dell CERC SATA RAID 1.5/6ch
74 HP ML110 G2 (Adaptec SATA RAID 2610SA)
79 Access to RAID containers is available via the
82 Individual drives cannot be accessed unless they are part of a container
83 or volume set, and non-fixed disks cannot be accessed.
84 Containers can be configured by using the on-board BIOS utility of
87 The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver.
88 These messages are printed on the system console.
95 driver first appeared in
99 driver of the same name.
101 This driver is not compatible with controllers that have version 1.x firmware.
102 The firmware version is the same as the kernel version printed in the BIOS
103 POST and driver attach messages.