From dd4bc2ed67087915110fbc1199163bb268c97222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: scottl Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:27:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the new passthrough interface. --- share/man/man4/ciss.4 | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/ciss.4 b/share/man/man4/ciss.4 index 98dd4fec879e..1f55fffce5eb 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ciss.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ciss.4 @@ -60,7 +60,15 @@ and it is dubious whether they would provide major performance improvements except under extreme load. .Pp Non-disk devices (such as internal DATs and devices -attached to the external SCSI bus) are not yet supported. +attached to the external SCSI bus) are supported as normal CAM devices +provided that they are exported by the controller firmware and are not +marked as being masked. Masked devices can be exposed by setting the +.Va hw.ciss.expose_hidden_physical +tunable to non-zero at boot time. Direct Access devices (such as disk +drives) are only exposed as +.Xr pass 4 +devices. Hot-insertion and removal of devices is supported but a bus +rescan might be necessary. .Pp Supported controllers include: .Pp @@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ HP Modular Smart Array 500 (MSA500) .Xr cam 4 , .Xr pass 4 , .Xr xpt 4 , +.Xr loader.conf 5 , .Xr camcontrol 8 .Rs .%T "CISS Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support Open Specification, Version 1.04, Valence Number 1"