NAME¶
hptmv
—
HighPoint RocketRAID 182x device driver
SYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel
configuration file:
device hptmv
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
loader.conf(5):
DESCRIPTION¶
The
hptmv
driver provides support for
HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x based RAID controller.
These devices support ATA disk drives and provide RAID0 (striping), RAID1
(mirroring), and RAID5 functionality.
HARDWARE¶
The
hptmv
driver supports the following ATA
RAID controllers:
- HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x series
NOTES¶
The
hptmv
driver only works on the i386 and
amd64 platforms as it requires a binary blob object from the manufacturer
which they only supply for these platforms. The
hptmv
driver does
not work on i386 with
pae(4) enabled.
SEE ALSO¶
kld(4),
kldload(8),
loader(8)
HISTORY¶
The
hptmv
device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS¶
The
hptmv
device driver was written by
HighPoint Technologies, Inc., and ported to
FreeBSD by
Scott
Long. This manual page was written by
David
E. O'Brien.
BUGS¶
The
hptmv
driver does not support
manipulating the RAID from the OS, RAIDs need to be set up from the on-board
BIOS.