Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0

[Andrew Hotlab]

>>>
>>> My card has no battery backup, but I disconnected the machine power cord and pulled
>>> the card off itsPCI-X slot.
>>>
>>> After few minutes I reconnected the card and I booted the machine without any
>>> hard drive. Then the same issue arised with the 7.0-RELEASE.
>> 
>> Did you reset the raid configurations? I've had this problem several times 
>> with machines that have run the cards in Windows prior running FreeBSD.
>>
> 
> Booting without hard drives left the card with no knowledge about RAID sets or volumes, since
> these data are saved on them. Surely I can now retry the boot after destroying current RAID
> configuration, which was defined for Windows (by the way, I did it by using the BIOS configuration
> utility...), but sincerely I wish to view FreeBSD 7.0R booting at least one time before "breaking
> with the past". :)
> 
> Uhm, wait for a moment... actually all that RAID volumes were defined when the card's firmware
> was at v1.39! What I can do now is booting the machine up with the v1.44 firmware without any
> attached drive. I'll post the result as soon as possible.
> 

No improvement: I've booted first without disks and then with only a RAID0 Volume created by
scratch using one disk that was used as online spare in the old RAID set, and 7.0R still have not
been able to complete the boot process! :(

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