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 December 4, 2015 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-1203 98.It 99ARC-1210 100.It 101ARC-1212 102.It 103ARC-1213 104.It 105ARC-1214 106.It 107ARC-1220 108.It 109ARC-1222 110.It 111ARC-1223 112.It 113ARC-1224 114.It 115ARC-1230 116.It 117ARC-1231 118.It 119ARC-1260 120.It 121ARC-1261 122.It 123ARC-1270 124.It 125ARC-1280 126.It 127ARC-1210ML 128.It 129ARC-1220ML 130.It 131ARC-1231ML 132.It 133ARC-1261ML 134.It 135ARC-1280ML 136.It 137ARC-1380 138.It 139ARC-1381 140.It 141ARC-1680 142.It 143ARC-1681 144.It 145ARC-1880 146.It 147ARC-1882 148.It 149ARC-1883 150.El 151.Sh FILES 152.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact 153.It Pa /dev/da? 154Array block device 155.It Pa /dev/arcmsr? 156Management interface 157.El 158.Sh SEE ALSO 159.Xr da 4 , 160.Xr scbus 4 161.Sh HISTORY 162The 163.Nm 164driver first appeared in 165.Fx 5.4 . 166.Sh AUTHORS 167The driver was written by 168.An Erich Chen Aq Mt erich@areca.com.tw . 169.Sh BUGS 170The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. 171It likely requires additional 172work to function on big-endian architectures. 173