Changes between Version 40 and Version 41 of Supported_RAID-Controllers

Timestamp:

May 10, 2015, 5:58:29 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Christian Franke

Comment:

Add Areca SAS drive support

Supported_RAID-Controllers

@@ -44 +44 @@
 Initially the SMART support was added only to the 32-bit Windows driver. With recent driver versions SMART access works on 64-bit Windows 7 (see [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110420135554.701c2163%40linux.localdomain&forum_name=smartmontools-support mailing list]) but not on 64-bit XP/2003 (see ticket #172).
 
-'''[[span(id=4, class=wikianchor, title=4, 4.)]]''' Areca support on Linux added in release 5.39. 
-The Areca controller must have firmware version 1.46 or later. Earlier versions will 
-not return SMART information but will instead produce (harmless) SCSI error messages.
+'''[[span(id=4, class=wikianchor, title=4, 4.)]]''' Areca SATA controller support for Linux was added in release 5.39. 
 Areca SAS controller support (SATA drives only) was added in release 5.43.
+SAS drive support was added in release 6.1.
 
 '''[[span(id=5, class=wikianchor, title=5, 5.)]]''' !HighPoint RocketRAID support for Linux was added in release 5.37.
@@ -62 +61 @@
 '''[[span(id=10, class=wikianchor, title=10, 10.)]]''' Intel ICHxR RAID support for Windows was added in release 5.41. It also works for a cache SSD connected to Z68 chipset. Some older driver versions (8.7.0, see [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CABecjUGxTUTDDgBFb%3D7ZP8rFUnnc018YOpRqO1UTqKQgQ%3DNkoA%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=smartmontools-support mailing list]) may return bogus SMART thresholds.
 
-'''[[span(id=11, class=wikianchor, title=11, 11.)]]''' Areca support for FreeBSD was added in release 5.42.
+'''[[span(id=11, class=wikianchor, title=11, 11.)]]''' Areca SATA controller support for FreeBSD was added in release 5.42.
 Areca SAS controller support (SATA drives only) was added in release 5.43.
+SAS drive support was added in release 6.1.
 
-'''[[span(id=12, class=wikianchor, title=12, 12.)]]''' Areca support for Windows was added in release 5.43.
+'''[[span(id=12, class=wikianchor, title=12, 12.)]]''' Areca SATA/SAS controller support (SATA drives only) for Windows was added in release 5.43.
+SAS drive support was added in release 6.0.
 
 '''[[span(id=13, class=wikianchor, title=13, 13.)]]''' According to user reports, some Windows drivers for LSI MegaRAID and Dell PERC 6 implement CMSI, see [comment:7:ticket:243 ticket #243] and [https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30879378 drive-database mailing list].