Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 18:29:12 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Bob Willcox" <bob@immure.com> Cc: questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading firmware on Areca RAID card? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0610091629j3d7a8856q79a90e3161e85ea2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061009133525.GA43380@rancor.immure.com> References: <20061009133525.GA43380@rancor.immure.com>
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On 10/9/06, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to upgrade the firmware on my Areca ARC-1210 SATA RAID > card. Has anyone out there done this, and if so, do you have any advice > on doing it? > > I have downloaded a program called archttp32 that appears to be a > FreeBSD 4.2 32-bit version of the Arec http proxy server but I really > need a 64-bit version (I suppose that would be called archttp64), > preferably build on FreeBSD 6.1 (or thereabouts). > > Any tips, pointers, advice, or warnings would be greatly appreciated. > IIRC the new driver (1.20.00.12) supports automatic firmware upgrades. I have some patches floating around in the freebsd PR database that will sync the default driver (version 1.20.00.02) in FreeBSD 6.x to the latest areca sources, which is 1.20.00.12. I never tested this feature... It may blow your card up :-)
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