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

[jan at presswatch.de]

On 11/19/2010 20:15, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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.
>
.....
>
>
>
Hi,

same here with an Areca 1680, using 20 disk in a Raid60.

CLI> sys info
The System Information
===========================================
Main Processor     : 1200MHz
CPU ICache Size    : 32KB
CPU DCache Size    : 32KB
CPU SCache Size    : 512KB
System Memory      : 512MB/533MHz/ECC
Firmware Version   : V1.48 2010-07-08
BOOT ROM Version   : V1.47 2009-06-25
Serial Number      : Y931CABWAR800375
Controller Name    : ARC-1680
Current IP Address : 192.168.5.203
===========================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.

dmesg:
....
arcmsr0: <Areca SAS 3G Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)
 > mem 0xfbdfe000-0xfbdfffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8
ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.19 2010-11-11
ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.48 2010-07-08
arcmsr0: [ITHREAD]
....

Thank you for support Areca, we using it in 5 powerful boxes!

Jan Winter