ARCMSR(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ARCMSR(4)
NAME
arcmsr -- 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
insertion/removal, automatic failover and rebuild, and SMART are also supported. 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 available
from Areca.
HARDWARE
The arcmsr driver supports the following cards:
o ARC-1110
o ARC-1120
o ARC-1130
o ARC-1160
o ARC-1170
o ARC-1180
o ARC-1110ML
o ARC-1120ML
o ARC-1130ML
o ARC-1160ML
o ARC-1210
o ARC-1220
o ARC-1230
o ARC-1260
o ARC-1280
o ARC-1210ML
o ARC-1220ML
o ARC-1231ML
o ARC-1261ML
o ARC-1280ML
FILES
/dev/da? Array block device
/dev/arcmsr? Management interface
SEE ALSO
da(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 additional work to function on big-endian architectures.
BSD
March 28, 2008 BSD
