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> References: <BAY102-W428F28799636A3B28D3A56F6710@phx.gbl> <tcv2a45d6qg60em6mlgpbtrrm4sjndtgt6@4ax.com> <BAY102-W48FB2A48FD4E357A8A8A25F6700@phx.gbl> <200808121549.m7CFnmBo031979@lava.sentex.ca> <BAY102-W296BBEA07B909CD3B3A636F6700@phx.gbl> <200808121704.m7CH4OZG032314@lava.sentex.ca> <BAY102-W32AA4C7F61460EDB529174F6700@phx.gbl> <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" -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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