Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:42:18 -0400 From: "Lisandro Grullon" <lisandro.grullon@gmail.com> To: "Areca Support" <support@areca.com.tw> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask a Question Message-ID: <9a4a258a0606041242q1e597a3apf3bea4355f9bedee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <008401c6831f$816b1020$6800a8c0@arecakevin> References: <WEB18cDjoYAPNXRPmca00000011@203-69-42-38.hihosting.hinet.net> <001d01c67faf$7cfdccd0$6800a8c0@arecakevin> <9a4a258a0605260700m27202fc0q223978f3361d5383@mail.gmail.com> <9a4a258a0605260714l2709c3e1v15670677043176b3@mail.gmail.com> <008401c6831f$816b1020$6800a8c0@arecakevin>
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Hi Kevin, After going through all my options with the areca 1120, the solution was easy and at the same time hard for someone new to FreeBSD. The card works 100% with freeBSD 6.1, the only thing I needed to do was upgrade to the latest firmware from the website. Specifically the one that you guys are beta testing dated "5/26/2006 2:15:00 PM" you might want to tell all your comstomers using this card with FreeBSD to upgrade to the latest firmware if they are having issues. Thank you again for e-mailing back and forward, again this is not a FreeBSD bug, it appears to be a firmware bug that is fixed in your latest "Beta" firmware. Your FreeBSd user, Lisandro Grullon On 5/29/06, Areca Support <support@areca.com.tw> wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > as we known, our controller driver had been buildin from FreeBSD 5.4, and > 6.0 also. so we didn't make new installation disk for FreeBSD after that. > > and regarding the firmware changes, normally we will added these changes > into the firmware released note. > for the Beta version, because we are testing it still, so we didn't upload > changes to avoid confusion. > i will forward your comment to our engineers, thanks for your suggestion. > > and regarding the AMD64 FreeBSD 6.1 installation. after kernel loaded, and > system shows no hard disk for installation. > could you please switch to console, and do a dmesg to check the driver > status ? > does our driver module loaded ? any error message on the driver ? > > we had tested FreeBSD 6.1 i386 edition before, it had buildin our > controller driver, no additional driver disk needed. but we didn't verifyed > AMD64 edition, i will ask our testing to verify it. > > > Best Regards, > > > Kevin Wang > > Areca Technology Tech-support Division > Tel : 886-2-87974060 Ext. 223 > Fax : 886-2-87975970 > Http://www.areca.com.tw <http://www.areca.com.tw>; > Ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw <ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw>; > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Lisandro Grullon <lisandro.grullon@gmail.com> > *To:* Areca Support <support@areca.com.tw> > *Sent:* Friday, May 26, 2006 10:14 PM > *Subject:* Re: Ask a Question > > I am about to flahs the firmware of this board, maybe that would fix the > problem;however, I would recoemend that your evelopment team post, what > these two firmware version are all about. What I mean is what changes happen > in each of the two version that you guys are currently beta testing. Bellow > is the link. > > ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIOS_Firmware/ARC1120/Beta > > > > On 5/26/06, Lisandro Grullon <lisandro.grullon@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Your website doesn't mention anything about supporting FreeBSD 6.0, > > what's the status on those drivers. The freeBSd community would really like > > to see some drivers supporting the current Release of FreeBSD. A lot of my > > collegues are just waiting for the driver release before they make their > > purchase, can you elaborate on this. Lisandro > > > > On 5/24/06, Areca Support < support@areca.com.tw> wrote: > > > > > Dear Sir, > > > > > > This is Kevin Wang from Areca Technology, Tech-Support Team. > > > regarding your problem, it looks like a FreeBSD bug, here is a > > > discussion i > > > found in google : > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=429394 > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > > > > Kevin Wang > > > > > > Areca Technology Tech-support Division > > > Tel : 886-2-87974060 Ext. 223 > > > Fax : 886-2-87975970 > > > Http://www.areca.com.tw > > > Ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Lisandro Grullon" < lisandro.grullon@gmail.com> > > > To: <support@areca.com.tw> > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:14 PM > > > Subject: Ask a Question > > > > > > > > > > Your name : Lisandro Grullon > > > > YourEmail : lisandro.grullon@gmail.com > > > > Category : PCI SATA ll RAID controller > > > > Model name : Areca 1120 > > > > Firmware Version : V1.39 > > > > Disk Vendor : Seagate > > > > Disk model : ST3300822AS > > > > Disk Firmware Version : > > > > HBA Vendor : > > > > HBA Model Name : > > > > Motherboard Vendor : Tyan > > > > Motherboard Model name : S2885 > > > > Motherboard BIOS Version : Latest > > > > Your Question : I am having a problem configuring the controller in > > > > FreeBSD 6.1. It all works out ok, the OS detects the card and I use > > > the > > > > drivers you supply in the website. The only problem is that when I > > > try > > > > creating the partition using the fdisk/label from sysinstall I am > > > getting > > > > a "disk geometry" error. Aparently the geometry is not correct, if > > > there a > > > > way that I could check the geometry of the volume/drive that are > > > attach to > > > > the controller, please let me know. > > > > > > > > Your Cumstomer, > > > > Lisandro Grullon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Lisandro Grullon > > New York City College of Technology > > Division of Continuing Education > > Director of Network Operations > > Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 > > Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu > > "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at > > once.". <Albert Einstein> > > > > > > -- > Lisandro Grullon > New York City College of Technology > Division of Continuing Education > Director of Network Operations > Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 > Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu > "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". > <Albert Einstein> > -- Lisandro Grullon New York City College of Technology Division of Continuing Education Director of Network Operations Lisandro Office: 1718-552-1178 Lisandro E-mail: lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.". <Albert Einstein>
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