Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:32:55 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE? Message-ID: <20101124053255.GA15123@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <D7494E82-4424-4535-87F9-59FAC5A170B3@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <D7494E82-4424-4535-87F9-59FAC5A170B3@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 09:41:43PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > Does anyone know whether the Areca ARC-1300-4X external SAS HBA is > currently supported under FreeBSD/amd64 8-STABLE? I just fired up a > system that has one of these cards that is running 8.0-RELEASE and the > HBA is not being detected properly by FreeBSD. (It is being > misidentified by the arcmsr driver.) I'm hoping that once I upgrade > from 8.0-RELEASE to a contemporary 8-STABLE that it'll be supported. > I found a posting on the Web that indicated a driver would be > available in the first quarter of 2010 > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2009-December/006115.html). > > I'm really hoping I can use this card, though I'm somewhat discouraged > by the fact that the Areca Web site lists only drivers for Windows, > Linux, and Mac OS X for this particular model. :-( Have you contacted Areca about this? Their Technical Support folks would be able to tell you why this is, and if there is work being done to provide a driver for FreeBSD. A hardware vendor that is known to support FreeBSD is more authoritative about their drivers than the FreeBSD Project. :-) Also, please see this thread (which is very recent): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-November/059985.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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