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.


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> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:09:04 -0600
> From: bvowk at math.ualberta.ca
> To: andrew.hotlab at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0
> 
> Pull the battery from the unit and reset the configuration. Reconnect the 
> battery when the system boots FreeBSD properly.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Barkley C. Vowk -- Systems Analyst -- University of Alberta
> Math Sciences Department - Barkley.Vowk at math.ualberta.ca
> Office: CAB642A, 780-492-4064
> 
> Opinions expressed are the responsibility of the author and
> may not reflect the opinions of others or reality.
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi to all. I've finally convinced my IT manager to replace a MSFT Windows Server Virtual Server host with
>> a FreeBSD 7 jail host. Obviously, before proposing this change I checked that our hardware was supported
>> by the FreeBSD platform, but as soon as I boot the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/amd64 CD-ROM the systems
>> hangs!
>>
>> I also tried the i386 version of the same release experiencing the same trouble. By using a 6.3-RELEASE
>> CD-ROM all works well (excluding some warnings still showing during the boot). I compared the source files
>> of the driver arcmsr(4) without finding any real difference: both of them are at the 1.20.00.15 revision, but
>> I'm not a very experienced FreeBSD sysadmin (yet!), and I need at least your opinions about this trouble!
>>
>> I think the most complete set of informations I can give you are the verbose boot logs of both the 6.3 and
>> 7.0 releases (sorry for the log post), but I'm ready to submit whatever data you want... please help me to
>> put Windows out of my datacenter! :)
>>

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