Re: Areca Cards?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon Johns wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've recently purchased an Areca ARC-1120 PCI-X raid controller
> and was wondering what the status of drivers were for this
> card.  I've tried the latest preview tag but was unable to find
> anything that remotely appeared to be a driver.  If someone could
> point me in the right direction I'd greatly appreciate it. I did find in
> the mail archive something about the driver being ported, but that
> was all there was. I would love to see just how well this card and
> a few 320gb drives can perform under DFly.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Brandon.

It was announced in 2003, has been favorably reviewed, uses an Intel CPU and 
Marvel controller chipset:

http://www.digicor.com.au/content.asp?Link=27&News=1

http://tweakers.net/reviews/557/8

so... has at least Loonix & FreeBSD drivers.

Have you tried it with DFLY?

Bill