Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:55 +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-W47AC021324A6FF6F54508FF6700@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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>>> >>> My card has no battery backup=2C but I disconnected the machine power c= ord and pulled >>> the card off itsPCI-X slot. >>> >>> After few minutes I reconnected the card and I booted the machine witho= ut 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 tim= es=20 >> with machines that have run the cards in Windows prior running FreeBSD. >> >=20 > Booting without hard drives left the card with no knowledge about RAID se= ts or volumes=2C since > these data are saved on them. Surely I can now retry the boot after destr= oying current RAID > configuration=2C which was defined for Windows (by the way=2C I did it by= using the BIOS configuration > utility...)=2C but sincerely I wish to view FreeBSD 7.0R booting at least= one time before "breaking > with the past". :) >=20 > Uhm=2C wait for a moment... actually all that RAID volumes were defined w= hen 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. >=20 No improvement: I've booted first without disks and then with only a RAID0 = Volume created by scratch using one disk that was used as online spare in the old RAID set=2C= and 7.0R still have not been able to complete the boot process! :( _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Space= s. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=3Dcreate&wx_url=3D/friends.= aspx&mkt=3Den-us=
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