aacraid — Adaptec AACRAID Controller driver
Contents
Bugs
The controller is not actually paused on suspend/resume.
Debian June 19, 2015 AACRAID(4)
Description
The aacraid driver provides support for the Adaptec by PMC RAID controllers, including Series 6/7/8 and
upcoming families.
The RAID containers are handled via the aacraidp0 bus. The physical buses are represented by the
aacraidp? devices (beginning with aacraidp1). These devices enable the SCSI pass-passthrough interface
and allows devices connected to the card such as CD-ROMs to be available via the CAM scsi(4) subsystem.
Note that not all cards allow this interface to be enabled.
The /dev/aacraid? device nodes provide access to the management interface of the controller. One node
exists per installed card. If the kernel is compiled with the COMPAT_LINUX option, or the
aacraid_linux.ko and linux.ko modules are loaded, the Linux-compatible ioctl(2) interface for the
management device will be enabled and will allow Linux-based management applications to control the card.
Diagnostics
Compiling with AACRAID_DEBUG set to a number between 0 and 3 will enable increasingly verbose debug
messages.
The adapter can send status and alert messages asynchronously to the driver. These messages are printed
on the system console, and are also queued for retrieval by a management application.
Files
/dev/aacraid? aacraid management interface
Hardware
Controllers supported by the aacraid driver include:
• Adaptec ASR-6405(T|E)
• Adaptec ASR-6445
• Adaptec ASR-6805(T|E|Q|TQ)
• Adaptec ASR-7085
• Adaptec ASR-7805(Q)
• Adaptec ASR-70165
• Adaptec ASR-71605(E|Q)
• Adaptec ASR-71685
• Adaptec ASR-72405
• Adaptec Series 8 cards
Name
aacraid — Adaptec AACRAID Controller driver
See Also
kld(4), linux(4), scsi(4), kldload(8)
Synopsis
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
devicepcideviceaacraid
To compile in debugging code:
optionsAACRAID_DEBUG=N
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
aacraid_load="YES"
