At 12:13 PM 8/12/2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
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... :(

Perhaps a disk option set on the Areca ? Looking at my config, I have it set to
SATA300+NCQ
HDD Read Ahead Cache  enabled
Stagger Power On Control 0..4
Spin Down Idle HDD  disabled
HDD SMART status polling enabled
Disk Write Cache Mode enabled

Can you try booting without the drives, or with just a couple of drives with a fresh raidset created ? I wonder if the box is booting up and is confused by the existing raidset ?

        ---Mike


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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> 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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