IPS(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual IPS(4)
NAME
ips - IBM SATA/SCSI ServeRAID controller
SYNOPSIS
ips* at pci?
DESCRIPTION
The ips driver provides support for IBM ServeRAID controllers, including:
o ServeRAID 3H/3HB/3L
o ServeRAID 4H/4L/4Lx/4M/4Mx
o ServeRAID 5i/5i II
o ServeRAID 6i/6M
o ServeRAID 7k/7M/7t
Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers, the driver makes
them look just like SCSI controllers. All RAID configuration is done
through the bootable IBM ServeRAID Support CD; a CD image is freely
available at the IBM website.
RAID management is done through the bio(4) device with the bioctl(8)
command. Logical disk status is exposed under the hw.sensors sysctl(8)
and can be monitored using sensorsd(8).
SEE ALSO
bio(4), intro(4), pci(4), scsi(4), sd(4), bioctl(8), sensorsd(8),
sysctl(8)
https://www.ibm.com
HISTORY
The ips driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.1.
AUTHORS
The ips driver was written by Alexander Yurchenko <
[email protected]>.
CAVEATS
Due to bioctl(8) limitations the ips driver associates all unused and hot
spare drives with the first volume but the drives can be used for
rebuilding any degraded volume.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 February 19, 2022 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8