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ARCMSR(4)		     Kernel Interfaces Manual		       ARCMSR(4)

NAME
     arcmsr -- Areca RAID Controller driver

SYNOPSIS
     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
     kernel configuration file:

	   device pci
	   device scbus
	   device da
	   device arcmsr

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the
     following line in loader.conf(5):

	   arcmsr_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
     The  arcmsr  driver  provides  support  for  the  Areca ARC-11xx, ARC-12xx,
     ARC-13xx, ARC-16xx and ARC-18xx series of SAS and	SATA  RAID  controllers.
     These  controllers feature RAID-0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10 and JBOD acceleration
     for up to 16 SATA drives.	RAID level and stripe  level  migration,  online
     capacity  expansion, hot insertion/removal, automatic failover and rebuild,
     and SMART are also supported.  Access to the arrays  is  provided	via  the
     SCSI CAM /dev/da? device nodes.  A management interface is also present via
     the  /dev/arcmsr?	device	node.	Management  tools for i386 and amd64 are
     available from Areca.

HARDWARE
     The arcmsr driver supports the  following	Areca  PCI-X/PCIe  SATA/SAS/NVMe
     RAID host adapters:

     *	 ARC-1110
     *	 ARC-1120
     *	 ARC-1130
     *	 ARC-1160
     *	 ARC-1170
     *	 ARC-1110ML
     *	 ARC-1120ML
     *	 ARC-1130ML
     *	 ARC-1160ML
     *	 ARC-1200
     *	 ARC-1201
     *	 ARC-1203
     *	 ARC-1210
     *	 ARC-1212
     *	 ARC-1213
     *	 ARC-1214
     *	 ARC-1216
     *	 ARC-1220
     *	 ARC-1222
     *	 ARC-1223
     *	 ARC-1224
     *	 ARC-1226
     *	 ARC-1230
     *	 ARC-1231
     *	 ARC-1260
     *	 ARC-1261
     *	 ARC-1270
     *	 ARC-1280
     *	 ARC-1210ML
     *	 ARC-1220ML
     *	 ARC-1231ML
     *	 ARC-1261ML
     *	 ARC-1280ML
     *	 ARC-1380
     *	 ARC-1381
     *	 ARC-1680
     *	 ARC-1681
     *	 ARC-1880
     *	 ARC-1882
     *	 ARC-1883
     *	 ARC-1884
     *	 ARC-1886

FILES
     /dev/da?	   Array block device
     /dev/arcmsr?  Management interface

SEE ALSO
     da(4), scbus(4)

HISTORY
     The arcmsr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.4.

AUTHORS
     The driver was written by Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>.

BUGS
     The  driver  has  been  tested on i386 and amd64.	It likely requires addi-
     tional work to function on big-endian architectures.

FreeBSD ports 15.1		  April 5, 2026 		       ARCMSR(4)

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