Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:54:14 +0000 From: Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com> To: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0 Message-ID: <BAY102-W1372E1F8B21BF1D7225FEEF6700@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20080812101605.B5198@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> References: <BAY102-W428F28799636A3B28D3A56F6710@phx.gbl> <20080811170806.X99082@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> <BAY102-W28F4D4A436884BE8C95E09F6700@phx.gbl> <20080812101605.B5198@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:17:58 -0600 > From: bvowk@math.ualberta.ca > To: andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-hardware@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@math.ualberta.ca >>> To: andrew.hotlab@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@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! :) >>>> >> _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
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