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32 .Nd Areca SATA II RAID Controller driver
41 driver provides support for the Areca ARC-11xx and ARC-12xx series of SATA II
43 These controllers feature RAID-0, 1, 3, 5, 6, and 10 and
44 JBOD acceleration for up to 16 SATA drives.
45 Raid level and stripe level
46 migration, online capacity expansion, hot insertion/removal, automatic failover
47 and rebuild, and SMART are also supported.
48 Access to the arrays is provided
52 A management interface is also present via the
55 Management tools for i386 and amd64 are available from Areca.
59 driver supports the following cards:
88 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /boot/kernel/arcmsr.ko" -compact
93 .It Pa /boot/kernel/arcmsr.ko
102 driver first appeared in
105 The driver was written by
106 .An Erich Chen Aq erich@areca.com.tw .
108 The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64.
109 It likely requires additional
110 work to function on big-endian architectures.