Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0

[Barkley Vowk]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:

>
> My card has no battery backup, but I disconnected the machine power cord and pulled
> the card off itsPCI-X slot.
>
> After few minutes I reconnected the card and I booted the machine without any
> hard drive. Then the same issue arised with the 7.0-RELEASE.

Did you reset the raid configurations? I've had this problem several times 
with machines that have run the cards in Windows prior running FreeBSD.

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>> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:09:04 -0600
>> From: bvowk at math.ualberta.ca
>> To: andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
>>
>> Pull the battery from the unit and reset the configuration. Reconnect the
>> battery when the system boots FreeBSD properly.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Barkley C. Vowk -- Systems Analyst -- University of Alberta
>> Math Sciences Department - Barkley.Vowk at math.ualberta.ca
>> Office: CAB642A, 780-492-4064
>>
>> Opinions expressed are the responsibility of the author and
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>>
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi to all. I've finally convinced my IT manager to replace a MSFT Windows Server Virtual Server host with
>>> a FreeBSD 7 jail host. Obviously, before proposing this change I checked that our hardware was supported
>>> by the FreeBSD platform, but as soon as I boot the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/amd64 CD-ROM the systems
>>> hangs!
>>>
>>> I also tried the i386 version of the same release experiencing the same trouble. By using a 6.3-RELEASE
>>> CD-ROM all works well (excluding some warnings still showing during the boot). I compared the source files
>>> of the driver arcmsr(4) without finding any real difference: both of them are at the 1.20.00.15 revision, but
>>> I'm not a very experienced FreeBSD sysadmin (yet!), and I need at least your opinions about this trouble!
>>>
>>> I think the most complete set of informations I can give you are the verbose boot logs of both the 6.3 and
>>> 7.0 releases (sorry for the log post), but I'm ready to submit whatever data you want... please help me to
>>> put Windows out of my datacenter! :)
>>>
>
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