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 March 28, 2008 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-1180 86.It 87ARC-1110ML 88.It 89ARC-1120ML 90.It 91ARC-1130ML 92.It 93ARC-1160ML 94.It 95ARC-1210 96.It 97ARC-1220 98.It 99ARC-1230 100.It 101ARC-1260 102.It 103ARC-1280 104.It 105ARC-1210ML 106.It 107ARC-1220ML 108.It 109ARC-1231ML 110.It 111ARC-1261ML 112.It 113ARC-1280ML 114.El 115.Sh FILES 116.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact 117.It Pa /dev/da? 118Array block device 119.It Pa /dev/arcmsr? 120Management interface 121.El 122.Sh SEE ALSO 123.Xr da 4 , 124.Xr scbus 4 125.Sh HISTORY 126The 127.Nm 128driver first appeared in 129.Fx 5.4 . 130.Sh AUTHORS 131The driver was written by 132.An Erich Chen Aq erich@areca.com.tw . 133.Sh BUGS 134The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. 135It likely requires additional 136work to function on big-endian architectures. 137