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43 .Nd LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver
45 To compile this driver into the kernel,
46 place the following lines in your
47 kernel configuration file:
48 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
53 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
54 module at boot time, place the following line in
56 .Bd -literal -offset indent
62 driver provides support
63 for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of
70 The following controllers are supported by the
78 (Single and Dual Ultra320
111 .Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express)
116 controller chips supported by the
118 driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
122 Dell PowerEdge 1750 through 2850
124 IBM eServer xSeries 335
127 These systems also contain Integrated RAID Mirroring and Integrated
128 RAID Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports.
132 controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems,
134 Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA
135 drives or a mix of them at the same time.
136 The Integrated RAID Mirroring
137 available for these controllers is poorly supported at best.
141 controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems.
144 Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the
148 This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards.
149 This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via
150 the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card
151 can take on - no separate compilation is required.
153 Most controllers supported by the
155 driver suffer from limitations on supported disk size (mostly <2TB).
156 While most controllers will truncate usable disk size, others might
157 behave unexpectedly and can cause severe data loss.
158 Refer to the datasheet of the chipset and firmware version for information
159 about supported disk size and limitations.
172 .%T "LSI Logic Website"
173 .%U http://www.lsi.com/
178 driver first appeared in
184 driver was originally written for
188 and marginally improved upon
190 .An Matt Jacob Aq Mt mjacob@FreeBSD.org .
192 .An Justin Gibbs Aq Mt gibbs@FreeBSD.org
194 .An Scott Long Aq Mt scottl@FreeBSD.org
195 have made more substantial improvements.