TWA(4)

πŸ“¦ version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’Ύ twa(4) β€” like, the Kernel Interfaces Manual page you've been looking for 🫢

Okay bestie, buckle up β€” we're doing a whole manual page for twa, and it's short and sweet, so this is gonna be a vibe.


✨ NAME ✨

twa β€” the 3ware Apache RAID controller driver. That's it, that's the whole name. Iconic, honestly.


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

twa* at pci? dev ? function ?

Yes, that's literally the whole thing. No flags, no drama, just a PCI attachment line. She's lowkey minimal. πŸ’…


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

So the twa driver is the one that provides support for the 3ware Apache family of RAID controllers. That's its whole job and it does it.

And like β€” important detail β€” the attached disk arrays are supported by the ld driver. Not by twa herself. twa gets you in the door, ld handles the arrays. Teamwork, no cap. 🀝


πŸŽ€ SEE ALSO πŸŽ€

  • intro(4) β€” the general intro to section 4, always a good place to start 🧚
  • ld(4) β€” the one that actually supports those attached disk arrays, iykyk πŸ’œ

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The twa driver first appeared in NetBSD 3.1. A classic. She's been around. πŸ‘‘


πŸ‘‘ AUTHORS πŸ‘‘

The twa driver was written by Vinod Kashyap ✨ and was modified for inclusion in NetBSD by Jordan Rhody ⟨jordanr@spam.wasabisystems.com⟩. Shoutout to both, fr fr. 🫢


And that's the page, bestie! πŸŽ€ This little gem is from the Debian build, dated November 6, 2006 β€” yeah, she's vintage, and she still ate. πŸ’–

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