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Subject: RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
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At 01:54 PM 8/12/2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
>I tried to boot without disks using the new firmware, but nothing 
>changed! Then I created a new RAID0
>set/volume using only a single SATA drive (it was used as online 
>spare), but still not success... I'm afraid
>to have ended any ideas about what it might be the cause of this trouble!! :(
>
>I'll go on changing PCI-X slot of the Areca card, but I'm going to 
>became pessimistic about a successful
>end of this story... sigh!


MB BIOS update ?  On some more exotic boards I find I sometimes have 
to disable some features, typically USB related, if there are 
problems.  Not sure in your case.  I think MSI is enabled by default 
on 7 and not on 6, so perhaps something on the board does not like 
that ?  Try disabling it in the loader.conf

hw.pci.enable_msi=0

         ---Mike