From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 19:20:36 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 6714B106568C for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB3F8FC13 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4809E1CC0BA; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:20:36 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Mike Tancsa Message-ID: <20080812192036.GA33759@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <200808121549.m7CFnmBo031979@lava.sentex.ca> <200808121704.m7CH4OZG032314@lava.sentex.ca> <200808121853.m7CIrYxo032800@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808121853.m7CIrYxo032800@lava.sentex.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Andrew Hotlab , 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 19:20:36 -0000 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 |