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 October 15, 2020 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-1216 108.It 109ARC-1220 110.It 111ARC-1222 112.It 113ARC-1223 114.It 115ARC-1224 116.It 117ARC-1226 118.It 119ARC-1230 120.It 121ARC-1231 122.It 123ARC-1260 124.It 125ARC-1261 126.It 127ARC-1270 128.It 129ARC-1280 130.It 131ARC-1210ML 132.It 133ARC-1220ML 134.It 135ARC-1231ML 136.It 137ARC-1261ML 138.It 139ARC-1280ML 140.It 141ARC-1380 142.It 143ARC-1381 144.It 145ARC-1680 146.It 147ARC-1681 148.It 149ARC-1880 150.It 151ARC-1882 152.It 153ARC-1883 154.It 155ARC-1884 156.It 157ARC-1886 158.El 159.Sh FILES 160.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/arcmsr?" -compact 161.It Pa /dev/da? 162Array block device 163.It Pa /dev/arcmsr? 164Management interface 165.El 166.Sh SEE ALSO 167.Xr da 4 , 168.Xr scbus 4 169.Sh HISTORY 170The 171.Nm 172driver first appeared in 173.Fx 5.4 . 174.Sh AUTHORS 175The driver was written by 176.An Erich Chen Aq Mt erich@areca.com.tw . 177.Sh BUGS 178The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. 179It likely requires additional 180work to function on big-endian architectures. 181