1.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Scott Long 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd October 15, 2020 26.Dt ARCMSR 4 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm arcmsr 30.Nd Areca RAID Controller driver 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32To compile this driver into the kernel, 33place the following lines in your 34kernel configuration file: 35.Bd -ragged -offset indent 36.Cd "device pci" 37.Cd "device scbus" 38.Cd "device da" 39.Cd "device arcmsr" 40.Ed 41.Pp 42Alternatively, to load the driver as a 43module at boot time, place the following line in 44.Xr loader.conf 5 : 45.Bd -literal -offset indent 46arcmsr_load="YES" 47.Ed 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51driver provides support for the Areca ARC-11xx, ARC-12xx, ARC-13xx, 52ARC-16xx and ARC-18xx series of SAS and SATA RAID controllers. 53These controllers feature RAID-0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10 and 54JBOD acceleration for up to 16 SATA drives. 55RAID level and stripe level 56migration, online capacity expansion, hot insertion/removal, automatic failover 57and rebuild, and SMART are also supported. 58Access to the arrays is provided 59via the SCSI CAM 60.Pa /dev/da? 61device nodes. 62A management interface is also present via the 63.Pa /dev/arcmsr? 64device node. 65Management tools for i386 and amd64 are available from Areca. 66.Sh HARDWARE 67The 68.Nm 69driver supports the following cards: 70.Pp 71.Bl -bullet -compact 72.It 73ARC-1110 74.It 75ARC-1120 76.It 77ARC-1130 78.It 79ARC-1160 80.It 81ARC-1170 82.It 83ARC-1110ML 84.It 85ARC-1120ML 86.It 87ARC-1130ML 88.It 89ARC-1160ML 90.It 91ARC-1200 92.It 93ARC-1201 94.It 95ARC-1203 96.It 97ARC-1210 98.It 99ARC-1212 100.It 101ARC-1213 102.It 103ARC-1214 104.It 105ARC-1216 106.It 107ARC-1220 108.It 109ARC-1222 110.It 111ARC-1223 112.It 113ARC-1224 114.It 115ARC-1226 116.It 117ARC-1230 118.It 119ARC-1231 120.It 121ARC-1260 122.It 123ARC-1261 124.It 125ARC-1270 126.It 127ARC-1280 128.It 129ARC-1210ML 130.It 131ARC-1220ML 132.It 133ARC-1231ML 134.It 135ARC-1261ML 136.It 137ARC-1280ML 138.It 139ARC-1380 140.It 141ARC-1381 142.It 143ARC-1680 144.It 145ARC-1681 146.It 147ARC-1880 148.It 149ARC-1882 150.It 151ARC-1883 152.It 153ARC-1884 154.It 155ARC-1886 156.El 157.Sh FILES 158.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact 159.It Pa /dev/da? 160Array block device 161.It Pa /dev/arcmsr? 162Management interface 163.El 164.Sh SEE ALSO 165.Xr da 4 , 166.Xr scbus 4 167.Sh HISTORY 168The 169.Nm 170driver first appeared in 171.Fx 5.4 . 172.Sh AUTHORS 173The driver was written by 174.An Erich Chen Aq Mt erich@areca.com.tw . 175.Sh BUGS 176The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. 177It likely requires additional 178work to function on big-endian architectures. 179