ARCMSR(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ARCMSR(4)NAMEarcmsr — Areca SATA II RAID Controller driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
device pci
device scbus
device da
device arcmsr
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
following line in loader.conf(5):
arcmsr_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The arcmsr driver provides support for the Areca ARC-11xx and ARC-12xx
series of SATA II RAID controllers. These controllers feature RAID-0, 1,
3, 5, 6, and 10 and JBOD acceleration for up to 16 SATA drives. Raid
level and stripe level migration, online capacity expansion, hot inser‐
tion/removal, automatic failover and rebuild, and SMART are also sup‐
ported. Access to the arrays is provided via the SCSI CAM /dev/da?
device nodes. A management interface is also present via the
/dev/arcmsr? device node. Management tools for i386 and amd64 are avail‐
able from Areca.
HARDWARE
The arcmsr driver supports the following cards:
· ARC-1110
· ARC-1120
· ARC-1130
· ARC-1160
· ARC-1170
· ARC-1180
· ARC-1110ML
· ARC-1120ML
· ARC-1130ML
· ARC-1160ML
· ARC-1210
· ARC-1220
· ARC-1230
· ARC-1260
· ARC-1280
· ARC-1210ML
· ARC-1220ML
· ARC-1231ML
· ARC-1261ML
· ARC-1280ML
FILES
/dev/da? Array block device
/dev/arcmsr? Management interface
SEE ALSOda(4), scbus(4)HISTORY
The arcmsr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.4.
AUTHORS
The driver was written by Erich Chen ⟨erich@areca.com.tw⟩.
BUGS
The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. It likely requires addi‐
tional work to function on big-endian architectures.
BSD March 28, 2008 BSD
