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=2C 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 >=20 > On Tue=2C 12 Aug 2008=2C Andrew Hotlab wrote: >=20 >> >> My card has no battery backup=2C but I disconnected the machine power co= rd and pulled >> the card off itsPCI-X slot. >> >> After few minutes I reconnected the card and I booted the machine withou= t any >> hard drive. Then the same issue arised with the 7.0-RELEASE. >=20 > Did you reset the raid configurations? I've had this problem several time= s=20 > 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=2C since these data are saved on them. Surely I can now retry the boot after destroy= ing current RAID configuration=2C which was defined for Windows (by the way=2C I did it by u= sing the BIOS configuration utility...)=2C but sincerely I wish to view FreeBSD 7.0R booting at least o= ne time before "breaking with the past". :) Uhm=2C wait for a moment... actually all that RAID volumes were defined whe= n the card's firmware was at v1.39! What I can do now is booting the machine up with the v1.44 fi= rmware without any attached drive. I'll post the result as soon as possible. Thanks you very much! =20 >> ---------------------------------------- >>> Date: Mon=2C 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 t= he >>> 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=2C 780-492-4064 >>> >>> Opinions expressed are the responsibility of the author and >>> may not reflect the opinions of others or reality. >>> >>> On Mon=2C 11 Aug 2008=2C Andrew Hotlab wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi to all. I've finally convinced my IT manager to replace a MSFT Wind= ows Server Virtual Server host with >>>> a FreeBSD 7 jail host. Obviously=2C before proposing this change I che= cked that our hardware was supported >>>> by the FreeBSD platform=2C but as soon as I boot the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEA= SE/amd64 CD-ROM the systems >>>> hangs! >>>> >>>> I also tried the i386 version of the same release experiencing the sam= e trouble. By using a 6.3-RELEASE >>>> CD-ROM all works well (excluding some warnings still showing during th= e boot). I compared the source files >>>> of the driver arcmsr(4) without finding any real difference: both of t= hem are at the 1.20.00.15 revision=2C but >>>> I'm not a very experienced FreeBSD sysadmin (yet!)=2C and I need at le= ast your opinions about this trouble! >>>> >>>> I think the most complete set of informations I can give you are the v= erbose boot logs of both the 6.3 and >>>> 7.0 releases (sorry for the log post)=2C but I'm ready to submit whate= ver 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=3Dwindows+vista&mkt=3Den-US&form=3DQBR= E=
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