Call for Area SATA II RAID controller testers [Fwd: svn commit: r215234 - head/sys/dev/arcmsr]

[Mike Tancsa]

On 11/13/2010 4:03 AM, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just committed a new vendor release of arcmsr(4) driver.  This is
> intended for 8.2-RELEASE so please test if you could.
> 

Hi,
	All seems to work well with the ARC-1110 card in RAID 10.  Read and
write speeds are about the same with the previous version of the driver
on AMD64, RELENG_8.

It also gets rid of a long standing bootup (cosmetic ?) error.  Web and
CLI work properly as well

# areca-cli "hw info"
The Hardware Monitor Information
===========================================
Fan#1 Speed (RPM)   : 2079
Battery Status      : Not Installed
HDD #1  Temp.       : 40
HDD #2  Temp.       : 39
HDD #3  Temp.       : 38
HDD #4  Temp.       : 38
===========================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.



# areca-cli "sys info"
The System Information
===========================================
Main Processor     : 500MHz
CPU ICache Size    : 32KB
CPU DCache Size    : 32KB
CPU SCache Size    : 0KB
System Memory      : 128MB/333MHz/ECC
Firmware Version   : V1.48 2009-12-31
BOOT ROM Version   : V1.48 2009-12-31
Serial Number      : Y523CAAAAR000426
Controller Name    : ARC-1110
===========================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.



--- /tmp/dmesg.boot     2010-11-19 14:24:11.000000000 -0500
+++ dmesg.boot  2010-11-19 15:01:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
 FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
-FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 19 13:17:53 EST 2010
+FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Fri Nov 19 14:56:35 EST 2010
     mdtancsa at obsidian2.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64
 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5800+ (2992.53-MHz
K8-class CPU)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
 arcmsr0: <Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller
 > mem 0xff2ff000-0xff2fffff,0xf6400000-0xf67fffff irq 18 at device 14.0
on pci3
-ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.17 2010-07-15
+ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.19 2010-11-11
 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.48 2009-12-31
 arcmsr0: [ITHREAD]
 atapci0: <ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 controller> port
0xc080-0xc087,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb880-0xb883,0xb800-0xb81f
mem 0xff3fe000-0xff3fffff irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci1
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@
 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
 uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
-(probe16:arcmsr0:0:16:0): inquiry data fails comparison at DV1 step
 da0 at arcmsr0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: <Areca FBSD R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
 da0: 166.666MB/s transfers (83.333MHz DT, offset 32, 16bit)


	---Mike