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 18, 2012 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-1230 112.It 113ARC-1231 114.It 115ARC-1260 116.It 117ARC-1261 118.It 119ARC-1270 120.It 121ARC-1280 122.It 123ARC-1210ML 124.It 125ARC-1220ML 126.It 127ARC-1231ML 128.It 129ARC-1261ML 130.It 131ARC-1280ML 132.It 133ARC-1380 134.It 135ARC-1381 136.It 137ARC-1680 138.It 139ARC-1681 140.It 141ARC-1880 142.It 143ARC-1882 144.El 145.Sh FILES 146.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact 147.It Pa /dev/da? 148Array block device 149.It Pa /dev/arcmsr? 150Management interface 151.El 152.Sh SEE ALSO 153.Xr da 4 , 154.Xr scbus 4 155.Sh HISTORY 156The 157.Nm 158driver first appeared in 159.Fx 5.4 . 160.Sh AUTHORS 161The driver was written by 162.An Erich Chen Aq erich@areca.com.tw . 163.Sh BUGS 164The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. 165It likely requires additional 166work to function on big-endian architectures. 167