Non blob frebsd raid 5 drivers...

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:11 PM, Telting wrote:

> I just wanted to get it straight.  I think I read some post that  
> said that 3ware actually has and uses commit access to the freebsd  
> source tree.  Can anyone comfirm this for me?
>
> I currently have a highpoint 2220 controller.  I got it because of  
> the Freebsd support what appeared to be available driver source  
> code only to be humilitated to discover after the fact that what's  
> labeled source is a "blob" module, and not source at all.
>
> Areca is a name I never heard before this list.  They appartly  
> support bsd but, what level of support?  Binary Driver, blob,  
> source, or docs?

They appear to have a source driver.

/usr/src/sys/dev/arcmsr
/usr/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/arcmsr.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/arcmsr.h


arcmsr is the driver name for areca (man arcmsr)

top of the .c file reads:

/*
************************************************************************ 
******************
**        O.S   : FreeBSD
**   FILE NAME  : arcmsr.c
**        BY    : Erich Chen
**   Description: SCSI RAID Device Driver for
**                ARECA (ARC1110/1120/1160/1210/1220/1260) SATA RAID  
HOST Adapter
**                ARCMSR RAID Host adapter[RAID controller:INTEL 331 
(PCI-X) 341(PCI-EXPRESS) chip set]
************************************************************************ 
******************
************************************************************************
**
** Copyright (c) 2004-2006 ARECA Co. Ltd.
**        Erich Chen, Taipei Taiwan All rights reserved.
**


I have several Areca cards because they support both BSD and Solaris  
with their drivers and I run both and want my HW to be as versatile  
as possible...  Have not actually run one in BSD yet though that will  
happen.  I have several but none are yet in production, just  
testing.  They do do quite well in reviews and bake-offs against  
other raid cards.

Chad


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