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.