arcmsr(7d) [opensolaris man page]

arcmsr(7D)							      Devices								arcmsr(7D)

NAME

       arcmsr - SAS and SATA HBA driver for Areca Hardware Raid devices

DESCRIPTION

       The arcmsr host bus adapter driver is a SCSA-compliant nexus driver that supports Areca Technology SAS and SATA RAID devices.

       Supported SATA RAID cards:

	 ARC-1110  pci17d3,1110
	 ARC-1120  pci17d3,1120
	 ARC-1130  pci17d3,1130
	 ARC-1160  pci17d3,1160
	 ARC-1170  pci17d3,1170
	 ARC-1201  pci17d3,1201
	 ARC-1210  pci17d3,1210
	 ARC-1220  pci17d3,1220
	 ARC-1230  pci17d3,1230
	 ARC-1260  pci17d3,1260
	 ARC-1270  pci17d3,1270
	 ARC-1280  pci17d3,1280

       Supported SAS RAID cards:

	 ARC-1380  pci17d3,1380
	 ARC-1381  pci17d3,1381
	 ARC-1680  pci17d3,1680
	 ARC-1681  pci17d3,1681

CONFIGURATION

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

FILES

       /kernel/drv/arcmsr	   32-bit ELF kernel module.

       /kernel/drv/amd64/arcmsr    64-bit kernel module (x64 only).

       /kernel/drv/arcmsr.conf	   Driver configuration file (contains no user-configurable options).

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |x86, x64 only		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWarcmsr		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

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

       Small Computer System Interface-2 (SCSI-2)

       http://www.areca.com.tw/products/main.htm

       http://developer.intel.com/design/iio/index.htm --(Intel Corp IO processors provide the underlying RAID engine for the supported devices).

SunOS 5.11							    28 Feb 2008 							arcmsr(7D)

BIO(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    BIO(4)

NAME

     bio -- Block IO ioctl tunnel pseudo-device

SYNOPSIS

     pseudo-device bio

DESCRIPTION

     The bio driver provides userland applications ioctl(2) access to devices otherwise not found as /dev nodes.  The /dev/bio device node oper-
     ates by delegating ioctl calls to a requested device driver.  Only drivers which have registered with the bio device can be accessed via this
     interface.

     The following device drivers register with bio for volume management:

	   arcmsr(4)  Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller
	   cac(4)     Compaq RAID array controller
	   ciss(4)    Compaq Smart ARRAY 5/6 SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID controller
	   mfi(4)     LSI Logic & Dell MegaRAID SAS RAID controller

     The following ioctl calls apply to the bio device:

     BIOCLOCATE        Locate a named device and give back a cookie to the application for subsequent ioctl calls.  The cookie is used to tunnel
		       further ioctls to the right device.

     BIOCINQ	       Retrieve number of volumes and physical disks for a specific device.

     BIOCDISK	       Retrieve detailed information for the specified physical disk.  Information returned can include status, size, channel,
		       target, lun, vendor name, serial number, and processor device (ses).

     BIOCDISK_NOVOL    Is just the same as BIOCDISK but doesn't require the disks to be in volume sets, so this applies to any physical disk con-
		       nected to the controller.

		       Note: this ioctl might not be supported on all hardware.

     BIOCVOL	       Retrieve detailed information for the specified volume.	Information returned can include status, size, RAID level, number
		       of disks, device name association (sd?) and vendor name.

     BIOCALARM	       Control the alarm beeper on the device.	Supported states are: disable alarm, enable alarm, silence alarm, status and test
		       alarm.

		       Note: These options might not be supported on all hardware.

     BIOCBLINK	       Blink an LED of the specified physical disk.  Supported blink states are: blink LED, unblink LED and blink alarm LED.

		       Note: This option is only supported if the disk is governed by ses(4) and the hardware supports hardware blinking.

     BIOCSETSTATE      Alter the state of specified physical disk.  Supported states are: create/remove hot-spare, create/remove pass through
		       disk, start/stop consistency check in a volume, online disk and offline disk.

		       Note: These options might not be supported on all hardware.

     BIOCVOLOPS        For operations in volume sets.  It's able to create and remove a volume set in a supported RAID controller.

		       Note: this ioctl might not be supported on all hardware.

FILES

     /dev/bio  ioctl tunnel device

SEE ALSO

     ioctl(2), bioctl(8)

HISTORY

     The bio driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2 and NetBSD 4.0.

AUTHORS

     The bio driver was written by Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@openbsd.org>.  The API was written by Marco Peereboom <marco@openbsd.org> and was
     extended even more for NetBSD by Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@netbsd.org>.

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