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[Areca|http://www.areca.com.tw/] make some [SATA] [RAID] controllers, noted for having an [open source|OpenSource] driver (arcmsr).

!![Red Hat Enterprise|RedHatEnterpriseLinux]/[CentOS|CentOs]/OpenFiler notes

A driver disk for ARC-1110/1120/1160/1170 (4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-X to SATA ll RAID Controller) for CentOS can be found at [http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/code.html#centos].

!![Debian] notes

Installation CDs with Areca support can be found at http://www.tienhuis.nl/areca/.

!![Ubuntu] notes

Installed Dapper Flight 5 to an Areca RAID controller. It found the controller, installed/partitioned fine etc, but on the reboot into the new system it could not find /dev/sda1 so could not proceed with boot.

This can be fixed by booting into a recovery console, mounting the disk, adding 'arcmsr' to /etc/mkinitramfs/modules, and running dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`.

* [Launchpad bug for this issue|https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hw-detect/+bug/40075]

! Management interface

Get the Areca web interface from [Areca's FTP site|ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/HTTP/].

<pre>
wget ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/HTTP/20060321-1.71.200Beta.zip
unzip 20060321-1.71.200Beta.zip
cd 20060321-1.71.200
cp archttp32 /usr/local/sbin/
</pre>

If you just want to fire up the web interface right away, go ahead and run it - but remember to run it w/ root privileges (ie: 'sudo archttp32/64'). Areca will *not* remind you about the root privileges and will silently fail to find the controllers.

I have created this init script, with help from [Gentoo's wiki page on Areca hardware|http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Areca]:

<pre>
#! /bin/sh

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/archttp32
NAME=archttp32
DESC="Areca RAID controller management interface"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
        log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC..."
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet -b -m --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS 2>/dev/null || log_end_msg 1
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
  stop)
        log_begin_msg "Stopping $DESC..."
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
            -s INT --exec $DAEMON --oknodo || log_end_msg 1
        sleep 5
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        log_begin_msg "Restarting $DESC..."
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $DAEMON --pidfile \
                /var/run/$NAME.pid --oknodo
        sleep 6
        start-stop-daemon --start -m -b --quiet --pidfile \
                /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS || log_end_msg 1
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        # echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Then, set it to run on start with:

<pre>
update-rc.d archttp32 defaults
</pre>

If you're on 64-bit Linux, replace all instances of 32 above with 64 (the zip file comes with both).

You can drop an [archttpsrv.conf|http://debian.unnet.nl/pub/areca/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/FreeBSD/HTTP/20051208-1.6/archttpsrv.conf] in the same directory, which is how you configure SMTP notifications.

You connect to http://server:81/; the default username is 'admin', password is '0000'

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Last edited on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:59:40 pm by CraigBox
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