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No CLI binary required to manage the Areca RAID controllers.
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.\" $NetBSD: arcmsr.4,v 1.2 2007/12/05 00:22:12 xtraeme Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: arcmsr.4,v 1.3 2008/01/02 23:50:52 xtraeme Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: arc.4,v 1.10 2007/11/04 08:18:17 dlg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@netbsd.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 David Gwynne <dlg@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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.\" TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
.Dd December 4, 2007
.Dd January 2, 2008
.Dt ARCMSR 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm arcmsr
.Nd Areca Technology Corporation SATA RAID controller
.Nd Areca Technology Corporation SATA/SAS RAID controller
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "arcmsr* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
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These controllers can support RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, and JBOD.
.Pp
.Nm
supports alarm control and monitoring of volumes configured on the
controllers via the
supports management of the controllers via the
.Xr bio 4
interface and the
.Xr bioctl 8
utility.
.Pp
Please note, however, that to use some features that require special
privileges, such as creating/removing hot-spares, pass-through disks
or RAID volumes will require to have the
.Em password
disable in the firmware; otherwise a
.Em Permission denied
error will be reported by
.Xr bioctl 8 .
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver will also report to the kernel log buffer any error that might
appear when handling firmware commands, such as used by the
.Xr bioctl 8
utility.
.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bio 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
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.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 4.0 .
It was ported to
.Nx 4.0
then.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An David Gwynne Aq dlg@openbsd.org
and was ported to
.Nx
by
and was extended by
.An Juan Romero Pardines Aq xtraeme@netbsd.org .