Bug 52961

Summary:	ARECA driver arcmsr is out of date - please update
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Steve Lane (sdlane)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	io_other
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan, alex, carnil, jrnieder, szg00000
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.7.4	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Steve Lane 2013-01-24 01:23:08 UTC

The ARECA arcmsr driver has not (as far as I can tell) been updated since version 1.20.00.15 02/27/2008; the current version, available from:

http://www.areca.com.tw/support/s_linux/linux.htm

is 1.20.0X.15-111012 2011/10/12.  Current ARECA hardware is unsupported by the older driver. 

Please note that the older version is also present in the 3.7.4 kernel as well.

Thanks/best,

--
Steve Lane

Comment 1 Alessandro Polverini 2014-01-19 13:59:01 UTC

Any news on this front?

Areca driver is really obsolete and I'm unable to install linux to controller available on the market since several months.

Latest version downloadable here:

http://www.areca.us/support/s_linux/driver/arcmsr-1.30.0X.16-131015.zip

Comment 2 Alan 2014-01-19 14:09:46 UTC

Areca have not afaik submitted updates and nobody else is maintaining the driver.

Comment 3 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2016-06-21 19:16:25 UTC

This bug probably can be closed. The mentioned driver version was included in 3.18 AFAICT.