From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 05:32:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85B31065674 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:32:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7538FC15 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.88]) by qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id atWV1f0031u4NiLA4tYw72; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:32:56 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id atYv1f0053LrwQ28htYvtu; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:32:56 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6A2EC9B422; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:32:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:32:55 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Paul Mather Message-ID: <20101124053255.GA15123@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Support for Areca ARC-1300-4X on 8-STABLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:32:57 -0000 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 |