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On 09/28/10 10:02, Maechler Philippe wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I hope someone can help me installing FreeBSD 8.x with a RAID Controller
> from HP or Areca.

> and then the machine freezes. This happens on FreeBSD 7.3 - 8.1 (AMD64
> and i386).
> On FreeBSD 7.2 i386 there is no problem with the areca controller.
>
> Google told me to disable the firewire and usb ports in the bios, we did
> that without any improvments.

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