> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:17:58 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [email protected] > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 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! :) >>>> >> _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE_______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
