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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:13:17 +0000
From:      Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
Message-ID:  <BAY102-W296BBEA07B909CD3B3A636F6700@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <200808121549.m7CFnmBo031979@lava.sentex.ca>
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> At 11:11 AM 8/12/2008=2C Andrew Hotlab wrote:
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>>You can confirm me that you are successfully using FreeBSD 7.0R with=20
>>the 1.43 firmware? If it's so=2C we might compare our hardware=20
>>components to find out if and what are differences...
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>=20
> Hi=2C
>          The dmesg below is on a supermicro board.  Actually=2C if you=20
> take the Areca out=2C does 7.0R boot up ?  As mentioned by another=20
> poster=2C try the RELENG_7 snapshot to see if it boots with that. If=20
> you are starting fresh=2C I would suggest it as there are a number of=20
> bug fixes and enhancements in the snapshot and its quite stable.
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>=20

Hi Mike... you've read in my mind: I tried to boot up 7.0R without the card=
 immediately after I sent my
last e-mail! :)  I can confirm that all works like a charm without the Arec=
a card. So=2C where the problem might lie?!  I tested the card with both 7.=
0-STABLE and 8.0-CURRENT (it hangs even before) without
success... :(

P.S.: during all these tests I was always verifying that the card itself wa=
s always functioning well=2C by
booting the Windows Server 2003 x64 installed on the RAID set.

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>=20
>>Thanks a lot for your help.
>>
>>----------------------------------------
>>> From: mike@sentex.net
>>> To: andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
>>> Date: Tue=2C 12 Aug 2008 08:13:56 -0400
>>>
>>> On Mon=2C 11 Aug 2008 22:54:41 +0000=2C in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardwar=
e
>>> you wrote:
>>>>arcmsr0:  mem 0xfc7ff000-0xfc7fffff=2C0xfc000000-0xfc3fffff irq 31=20
>> at device 14.0 on pci2
>>>>arcmsr0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfc7ff000
>>>>ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2007-10-07
>>>>ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRMWARE VERSION V1.39 2006-2-9
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure it will help you or not=2C but I run the same card with versio=
n
>>> 1.43 of the firmware.  I would try to upgrade the Areca card's
>>> firmware and then give 7.0R another try.
>>>
>>>       ---Mike
>>

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