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27.Dd January 10, 2007
28.Dt ARCMSR 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm arcmsr
32.Nd Areca SATA II RAID Controller driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device pci"
39.Cd "device scbus"
40.Cd "device da"
41.Cd "device arcmsr"
42.Ed
43.Pp
44Alternatively, to load the driver as a
45module at boot time, place the following line in
46.Xr loader.conf 5 :
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48arcmsr_load="YES"
49.Ed
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53driver provides support for the Areca ARC-11xx and ARC-12xx series of SATA II
54RAID controllers.
55These controllers feature RAID-0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10 and
56JBOD acceleration for up to 16 SATA drives.
57Raid level and stripe level
58migration, online capacity expansion, hot insertion/removal, automatic failover
59and rebuild, and SMART are also supported.
60Access to the arrays is provided
61via the SCSI CAM
62.Pa /dev/da?
63device nodes.
64A management interface is also present via the
65.Pa /dev/arcmsr?
66device node.
67Management tools for i386 and amd64 are available from Areca.
68.Sh HARDWARE
69The
70.Nm
71driver supports the following cards:
72.Pp
73.Bl -bullet -compact
74.It
75ARC-1110
76.It
77ARC-1120
78.It
79ARC-1130
80.It
81ARC-1160
82.It
83ARC-1170
84.It
85ARC-1110ML
86.It
87ARC-1120ML
88.It
89ARC-1130ML
90.It
91ARC-1160ML
92.It
93ARC-1210
94.It
95ARC-1220
96.It
97ARC-1230
98.It
99ARC-1260
100.It
101ARC-1280
102.It
103ARC-1210ML
104.It
105ARC-1220ML
106.It
107ARC-1231ML
108.It
109ARC-1261ML
110.It
111ARC-1280ML
112.El
113.Sh FILES
114.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact
115.It Pa /dev/da?
116Array block device
117.It Pa /dev/arcmsr?
118Management interface
119.El
120.Sh SEE ALSO
121.Xr da 4 ,
122.Xr scbus 4
123.Sh HISTORY
124The
125.Nm
126driver first appeared in
127.Fx 5.4 .
128.Sh AUTHORS
129The driver was written by
130.An Erich Chen Aq erich@areca.com.tw .
131.Sh BUGS
132The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64.
133It likely requires additional
134work to function on big-endian architectures.
135