HPTNR(4)

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💖 HPTNR 💖 (that's section 4, the kernel interfaces manual bestie)

okay so welcome to the hptnr page, she's a driver page, kernel interfaces manual, section 4, and she's here to tell you all about the HighPoint DC Series Data Center HBA card driver. grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

hptnr — HighPoint DC Series Data Center HBA card driver

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so there's two ways to get this driver into your life, and it's giving pick your fighter.

option one, the committed girlie: you compile this driver straight into the kernel, and for that you drop this line into your kernel configuration file:

device hptnr

option two, the chill girlie: you load the driver as a module at boot time instead, and for that you put this line in loader.conf(5):

hptnr_load="YES"

both valid, both iconic, pick whichever matches your vibe 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The hptnr driver provides support for HighPoint's DC Series Data Center HBA card. that's the whole job. she does one thing and she does it 🫶

👑 HARDWARE 👑

okay so here's what she actually supports — the hptnr driver supports the following SATA controllers:

  • HighPoint's DC7280 series
  • HighPoint's Rocket R750 series

if your card is on this list, you're slaying. if it's not... it's not 💀

🎀 NOTES 🎀

okay bestie, important stuff, listen up:

The hptnr driver only works on the i386 and amd64 platforms as it requires a binary blob object from the manufacturer which they only supply for these platforms.

and one more:

The hptnr driver does not work on i386 with pae(4) enabled.

so like. no cap. check your platform before you get your hopes up 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, they're part of the lore, iykyk ⭐

💜 HISTORY 💜

The hptnr device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 9.2. a legend was born, periodt ✨

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

The hptnr device driver was written by HighPoint Technologies, Inc.. This manual page was written by Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> for iXsystems, Inc.

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this one's from the Debian crew, dated July 5, 2013, and yes the footer says HPTNR(4) because that's her name and she's keeping it. bye bestie, go read kld(4) 🫶💖

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