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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:20:36 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
Message-ID:  <20080812192036.GA33759@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <200808121853.m7CIrYxo032800@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:53:32PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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

Don't forget MSI-X:

hw.pci.enable_msix="0"

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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