HPT27XX(4)

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✨ HPT27XX(4) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, we're talking about a kernel interfaces manual page today and honestly? it's giving storage drama 💅 this one's the hpt27xx page, and no cap, it's about making a fancy RAID card actually work on your machine 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

hpt27xx — the HighPoint RocketRAID 27xx SAS 6Gb/s HBA card driver, bestie. that's it, that's the name, and it's iconic 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so you wanna bake this driver into your kernel? say less. drop this line into your kernel configuration file:

device hpt27xx

orrr, if you'd rather load it as a module at boot time (main character energy, honestly), pop this into loader.conf(5):

hpt27xx_load="YES"

periodt. that's the whole vibe 🌈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

the hpt27xx driver is here to provide support for HighPoint's RocketRAID 27xx based RAID controller. yes queen, it's a whole thing.

these devices support SAS disk drives and they serve up RAID0 (that's striping, for the speed girlies), RAID1 (mirroring, for the safety-first girlies), and RAID5 functionality. pick your fighter 🫶

👑 HARDWARE 👑

the hpt27xx driver supports the following SAS controllers:

  • HighPoint's RocketRAID 271x series
  • HighPoint's RocketRAID 272x series
  • HighPoint's RocketRAID 274x series
  • HighPoint's RocketRAID 276x series
  • HighPoint's RocketRAID 278x series

if your card is on this list, congratulations, you ate 🔥

🎀 NOTES 🎀

okay so this is the part where we have to be a little bit real with each other 😭

the hpt27xx driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms, because it needs a binary blob object from the manufacturer, and they only supply it for these platforms. so if you're on anything else... it's not happening, bestie.

also! the hpt27xx driver does not work on i386 with pae(4) enabled. like, at all. note that down 📝

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, iykyk 💜

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the hpt27xx device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 10.0. a legend was born 💫

💅 AUTHORS 💅

the hpt27xx device driver was written by HighPoint Technologies, Inc..

this manual page was written by Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> for iXsystems, Inc. — shoutout to them, fr fr 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came out of the Debian camp, dated December 28, 2011, and it's filed under HPT27XX(4). slay, go forth and RAID responsibly ✨💖🎀

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