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ARCMSR(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ARCMSR(4)
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:
o ARC-1110
o ARC-1120
o ARC-1130
o ARC-1160
o ARC-1170
o ARC-1110ML
o ARC-1120ML
o ARC-1130ML
o ARC-1160ML
o ARC-1200
o ARC-1201
o ARC-1203
o ARC-1210
o ARC-1212
o ARC-1213
o ARC-1214
o ARC-1216
o ARC-1220
o ARC-1222
o ARC-1223
o ARC-1224
o ARC-1226
o ARC-1230
o ARC-1231
o ARC-1260
o ARC-1261
o ARC-1380
o ARC-1381
o ARC-1680
o ARC-1681
o ARC-1880
o ARC-1882
o ARC-1883
o ARC-1884
o ARC-1886
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.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 October 15, 2020 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6