On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Paul Mather <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link! I'm not sure whether "Fixed arcmsr driver prevent > arcsas support for Areca SAS HBA ARC13x0" in the "Bug fixes" list is good > news or bad news for me. It suggests that the arcmsr driver has been fixed > to prevent it attaching to the ARC-13X0 cards, implying that it is not > supported. This entry about OS support on the Areca official page for the > ARC-1300 product (http://www.areca.us/products/sasnoneraid.htm) is also not > inspiring: "BSD/FreeBSD (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)." Does > this mean only their 6 Gb/s cards will be supported under FreeBSD, or that > support for the 3 Gb/s cards will appear alongside the 6 Gb/s cards, whenever > they are released?
The 6Gb/s cards are not released yet. The updated driver resolved a conflict with the newer ARC13x0 cards, without it one will have to update arcmsr(4) before installing the SAS card driver. Cheers, -- Xin LI <[email protected]> http://www.delphij.net _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
