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.Dd May 18, 2006
.Dt MFI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mfi
.Nd LSI Logic & Dell MegaRAID SAS Controllers
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "mfi* at pci?"
.Cd "scsibus* at mfi?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the MegaRAID SAS family of RAID controllers,
including:
.Pp
.Bl -dash -offset indent -compact
.It
Dell PERC 5/e,
PERC 5/i
.It
Intel RAID Controller SRCSAS18E,
SRCSAS144E
.It
LSI Logic
MegaRAID SAS 8208ELP,
MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP,
MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP,
MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP,
MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP,
MegaRAID SAS 8408E,
MegaRAID SAS 8480E,
.El
.Pp
These controllers support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and RAID 50
using either SAS or SATA II drives.
.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.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bio 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr iop 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr scsi 4 ,
.Xr sd 4 ,
.Xr bioctl 8 ,
.Xr sensorsd 8 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .