Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0

[Andrew Hotlab]

> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:17:58 -0600
> From: bvowk at math.ualberta.ca
> To: andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com
> CC: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
> 
> 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.
>

Booting without hard drives left the card with no knowledge about RAID sets or volumes, since
these data are saved on them. Surely I can now retry the boot after destroying current RAID
configuration, which was defined for Windows (by the way, I did it by using the BIOS configuration
utility...), but sincerely I wish to view FreeBSD 7.0R booting at least one time before "breaking
with the past". :)

Uhm, wait for a moment... actually all that RAID volumes were defined when the card's firmware
was at v1.39! What I can do now is booting the machine up with the v1.44 firmware without any
attached drive. I'll post the result as soon as possible.

Thanks you very much!

 
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> 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
>>> may not reflect the opinions of others or reality.
>>>
>>> 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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