Bug 52961 - ARECA driver arcmsr is out of date - please update
Summary: ARECA driver arcmsr is out of date - please update
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: IO/Storage
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: io_other
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Reported: 2013-01-24 01:23 UTC by Steve Lane
Modified: 2016-06-21 19:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 3.7.4
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Regression: No
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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,

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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.
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