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.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 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