From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 17:38:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487431065673 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s35.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s35.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F74A8FC15 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com) Received: from BAY102-W47 ([64.4.61.147]) by bay0-omc1-s35.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:38:56 -0700 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [217.133.1.92] From: Andrew Hotlab To: Barkley Vowk Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:55 +0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20080812101605.B5198@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> References: <20080811170806.X99082@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> <20080812101605.B5198@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Aug 2008 17:38:56.0259 (UTC) FILETIME=[4B8E7D30:01C8FCA2] Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:56 -0000 >>> >>> 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=