arcmsr4

Usage

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