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authorScott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-23 00:27:56 +0000
committerScott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>2004-06-23 00:27:56 +0000
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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"