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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

aac

aac(7D) 							      Devices								   aac(7D)

NAME

       aac - SCSI HBA driver for Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller

DESCRIPTION

       The  aac plain SCSI host bus adapter driver is a SCSA-compliant nexus driver that supports the Adaptec 2200S/ 2120S SCSI RAID card and Dell
       PERC 3Di SCSI RAID controller.

       The aac driver ports from FreeBSD and only supports basic RAID disk I/O functions.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION

       There are no user configurable parameters available. Please configure your hardware through BIOS.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

FILES

       /kernel/drv/aac

	   32-bit ELF kernel module

       /kernel/drv/aac.conf

	   Configuration file. (Contains no user-configurable options).

SEE ALSO

       prtconf(1M), attributes(5), scsi_hba_attach(9F), scsi_sync_pkt(9F), scsi_transport(9F), scsi_device(9S), scsi_inquiry(9S), scsi_pkt(9S)

       Small Computer System Interface-2 (SCSI-2)

SunOS 5.10							    18 Aug 2004 							   aac(7D)

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