arcmsr(4) Areca 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.conf5:


arcmsr_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The driver provides support for the Areca ARC-11xx, ARC-12xx, ARC-13xx, ARC-16xx and ARC-18xx series of SAS and SATA 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 driver supports the following cards:

  • ARC-1110
  • ARC-1120
  • ARC-1130
  • ARC-1160
  • ARC-1170
  • ARC-1110ML
  • ARC-1120ML
  • ARC-1130ML
  • ARC-1160ML
  • ARC-1200
  • ARC-1201
  • ARC-1210
  • ARC-1212
  • ARC-1213
  • ARC-1214
  • ARC-1220
  • ARC-1222
  • ARC-1223
  • ARC-1224
  • ARC-1230
  • ARC-1231
  • ARC-1260
  • ARC-1261
  • ARC-1270
  • ARC-1280
  • ARC-1210ML
  • ARC-1220ML
  • ARC-1231ML
  • ARC-1261ML
  • ARC-1280ML
  • ARC-1380
  • ARC-1381
  • ARC-1680
  • ARC-1681
  • ARC-1880
  • ARC-1882

FILES

/dev/da?
Array block device
/dev/arcmsr?
Management interface

HISTORY

The driver first appeared in Fx 5.4 .

AUTHORS

The driver was written by An Erich Chen Aq [email protected] .

BUGS

The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. It likely requires additional work to function on big-endian architectures.