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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Areca weirdness
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Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
>> For the Areca driver, it's harmless.  I still haven't narrowed
>> down the actual problem, unfortunately.
> 
> I see the same on a new box with FreeBSD 7.0BETA4 AMD64. Unfortunately
> it just stops and hangs here:
> 
> arcmsr0: <Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)> mem 
> 0xfdbff000-0xfdbfffff,0xfd400000-0xfd7fffff irq 16 at device 14.0 on pci10
> ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.14 2007-2-05
> ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.43 2007-4-17
> arcmsr0: [ITHRRAD]
> ...
> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> (probe23:arcmsr0:0:16:0): inquiry data fails comparison at DV1 step
> 
> [hangs...]
> 
> The controller is an ARC-1220 PCI-Express with 8 SATA ports.  The
> firmware is the newest according to their website.  Connected are
> 4 Seagate 750GB SATA drives (the ES 24x7 variant).  With 6.3RC1
> AMD64 it works just fine.
> 

Can you break into the debugger and see if it's getting an interrupt 
storm or is spinning in code or is sleeping somewhere odd?

Scott