NAME

       arcmsr — 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.conf(5):

             arcmsr_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

       The  arcmsr  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 arcmsr 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

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.

Debian                                          February 27, 2013                                      ARCMSR(4)