hptmv(4)

NAME

hptmv - HighPoint RocketRAID 182x device driver

SYNOPSIS

device hptmv

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 con

trollers:

+o 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 Technolo

gies, Inc., and
ported to FreeBSD by Scott Long. This manual page was writ

ten 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.

BSD November 17, 2005

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