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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:43:00 +0000
From:      Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
Message-ID:  <BAY102-W38FDF5A97DD9E8C70AED5FF6730@phx.gbl>

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> Date: Tue=2C 12 Aug 2008 12:20:36 -0700
> From: koitsu@FreeBSD.org
> To: mike@sentex.net
> CC: andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com=3B freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
>
> On Tue=2C Aug 12=2C 2008 at 02:53:32PM -0400=2C Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> At 01:54 PM 8/12/2008=2C Andrew Hotlab wrote:
>>> I tried to boot without disks using the new firmware=2C but nothing
>>> changed! Then I created a new RAID0
>>> set/volume using only a single SATA drive (it was used as online
>>> spare)=2C but still not success... I'm afraid
>>> to have ended any ideas about what it might be the cause of this troubl=
e!! :(
>>>
>>> I'll go on changing PCI-X slot of the Areca card=2C 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=2C typically USB related=2C if there are problems.=
  Not
>> sure in your case.  I think MSI is enabled by default on 7 and not on 6=
=2C
>> so perhaps something on the board does not like that ?  Try disabling it
>> in the loader.conf
>>
>> hw.pci.enable_msi=3D0
>
> Don't forget MSI-X:
>
> hw.pci.enable_msix=3D"0"
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View=2C CA=2C USA =
|
> | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
>

Sorry for the late post=2C my Windows Live Hotmail mailbox suffered a disru=
ption... :(

I flashed the BIOS of the Supermicro H8DAE with the latest update available=
 (v1.1a to v1.1b). With
both the old and the new version of the BIOS to modify sysctl tunables do n=
ot resolve the problem=2C but
I've found that FreeBSD 7.0R boots successfully simply by changing the PCI-=
X slot for the Areca card!!!

I've also verified that 7.0R boots when only the RAID card is plugged in th=
e system (removing the Intel
Pro/1000MT Quad Port adapter)... it might be changed something in the lates=
t FreeBSD release causing
the fault with this particular hardware configuration.

Thanks you all very much to have supported me in solving this trouble... th=
at system will be the
first physical Unix BSD host that can be considered in production in my net=
work! I'm going to
begin the setup! :)

Andrew
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