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
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