> There don't seem to be drivers for Areca's cards in either the
> mainstream kernel or RHEL4 derived kernels. Their drivers do appear to
> be open source though. Currently Openfiler does not ship with a
> development environment (i.e., no compiler, etc.) , although we have
> binary compatibility with RHEL4 and CentOS 4 being based on the same
> codebase. So unless you want to get your hands dirty with CentOS 4 and
> build a kernel RPM for use with Openfiler (or try using Areca's binary
> drivers for CentOS), I suggest against using Areca's cards for now. I
> have opened a ticket (#271) for its inclusion in our "unsupported"
> kernel.

Well, what do you know!  I attacked this one a couple of weeks ago, and
found some precompiled drivers on the 'web.  Check out my notes at
http://www.wlug.org.nz/ArecaNotes.

Craig

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