arcmsr(4)

arcmsr4

Areca sata ii raid controller driver

Usage

device arcmsr device pci device scbus device da

Overview

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:

  • ARC-1110

  • ARC-1120

  • ARC-1130

  • ARC-1160

  • ARC-1130-ML

  • ARC-1160-ML

  • ARC-1210

  • ARC-1220

  • ARC-1230

  • ARC-1260

  • ARC-1230-ML

  • ARC-1260-ML

Files

/dev/da?

Array block device

/dev/arcmsr?

Management interface

/boot/kernel/arcmsr.ko

Loadable module

History

The arcmsr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.4.

Authors

The driver was written by Erich Chen ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Bugs

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

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