Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0

[Andrew Hotlab]

> At 11:11 AM 8/12/2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
> 
>>You can confirm me that you are successfully using FreeBSD 7.0R with 
>>the 1.43 firmware? If it's so, we might compare our hardware 
>>components to find out if and what are differences...
> 
> 
> Hi,
>          The dmesg below is on a supermicro board.  Actually, if you 
> take the Areca out, does 7.0R boot up ?  As mentioned by another 
> poster, try the RELENG_7 snapshot to see if it boots with that. If 
> you are starting fresh, I would suggest it as there are a number of 
> bug fixes and enhancements in the snapshot and its quite stable.
> 
> 

Hi Mike... you've read in my mind: I tried to boot up 7.0R without the card immediately after I sent my
last e-mail! :)  I can confirm that all works like a charm without the Areca card. So, where the problem might lie?!  I tested the card with both 7.0-STABLE and 8.0-CURRENT (it hangs even before) without
success... :(

P.S.: during all these tests I was always verifying that the card itself was always functioning well, by
booting the Windows Server 2003 x64 installed on the RAID set.

> 
> 
>>Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
>>----------------------------------------
>>> From: mike at sentex.net
>>> To: andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
>>> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:13:56 -0400
>>>
>>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:54:41 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware
>>> you wrote:
>>>>arcmsr0:  mem 0xfc7ff000-0xfc7fffff,0xfc000000-0xfc3fffff irq 31 
>> at device 14.0 on pci2
>>>>arcmsr0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfc7ff000
>>>>ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2007-10-07
>>>>ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.39 2006-2-9
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure it will help you or not, but I run the same card with version
>>> 1.43 of the firmware.  I would try to upgrade the Areca card's
>>> firmware and then give 7.0R another try.
>>>
>>>       ---Mike
>>

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