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27.Dd February 27, 2013
28.Dt ARCMSR 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm arcmsr
32.Nd Areca 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, ARC-12xx, ARC-13xx,
54ARC-16xx and ARC-18xx series of SAS and SATA RAID 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-1200
94.It
95ARC-1201
96.It
97ARC-1210
98.It
99ARC-1212
100.It
101ARC-1213
102.It
103ARC-1214
104.It
105ARC-1220
106.It
107ARC-1222
108.It
109ARC-1223
110.It
111ARC-1224
112.It
113ARC-1230
114.It
115ARC-1231
116.It
117ARC-1260
118.It
119ARC-1261
120.It
121ARC-1270
122.It
123ARC-1280
124.It
125ARC-1210ML
126.It
127ARC-1220ML
128.It
129ARC-1231ML
130.It
131ARC-1261ML
132.It
133ARC-1280ML
134.It
135ARC-1380
136.It
137ARC-1381
138.It
139ARC-1680
140.It
141ARC-1681
142.It
143ARC-1880
144.It
145ARC-1882
146.El
147.Sh FILES
148.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact
149.It Pa /dev/da?
150Array block device
151.It Pa /dev/arcmsr?
152Management interface
153.El
154.Sh SEE ALSO
155.Xr da 4 ,
156.Xr scbus 4
157.Sh HISTORY
158The
159.Nm
160driver first appeared in
161.Fx 5.4 .
162.Sh AUTHORS
163The driver was written by
164.An Erich Chen Aq erich@areca.com.tw .
165.Sh BUGS
166The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64.
167It likely requires additional
168work to function on big-endian architectures.
169