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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! :(

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