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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ami.429
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ami.4 b/share/man/man4/ami.4
index 4afd486bcc8..bad16642645 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ami.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ami.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ami.4,v 1.21 2004/11/22 21:10:08 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ami.4,v 1.22 2005/06/29 19:51:04 mickey Exp $
.\"
.\" Michael Shalayeff, 2001. Public Domain.
.\"
@@ -28,22 +28,38 @@ including:
These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, JBOD,
and superpositions of those configurations.
.Pp
-Some cards support both I2O and a so-called `Mass Storage' mode
-of operation.
-This driver only supports the `Mass Storage' mode; I2O mode is supported
+Some cards support both I2O and a so-called
+.Sq Mass Storage
+mode of operation.
+This driver only supports the
+.Sq Mass Storage
+mode; I2O mode is supported
by the
.Xr iop 4
driver.
+However it is recommended to use these cards in
+.Sq Mass Storage
+mode.
.Pp
Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers,
the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers.
All RAID configuration is done through the controllers' BIOSes.
+.Pp
+Management interface is provided through the
+.Xr bio 4
+device or one of the daughter
+.Xr sd 4
+devices as implemented in
+.Xr bioctl 8
+utility.
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr bio 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr iop 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr scsi 4 ,
-.Xr sd 4
+.Xr sd 4 ,
+.Xr bioctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
@@ -54,3 +70,6 @@ The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Michael Shalayeff Aq mickey@openbsd.org .
+.Pp
+Management functions were implemented by
+.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .