Areca ARC-1120 on FreeBSD 7.0

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:53:32PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 01:54 PM 8/12/2008, Andrew Hotlab wrote:
>> I tried to boot without disks using the new firmware, but nothing  
>> changed! Then I created a new RAID0
>> set/volume using only a single SATA drive (it was used as online  
>> spare), but still not success... I'm afraid
>> to have ended any ideas about what it might be the cause of this trouble!! :(
>>
>> I'll go on changing PCI-X slot of the Areca card, but I'm going to  
>> became pessimistic about a successful
>> end of this story... sigh!
>
>
> MB BIOS update ?  On some more exotic boards I find I sometimes have to 
> disable some features, typically USB related, if there are problems.  Not 
> sure in your case.  I think MSI is enabled by default on 7 and not on 6, 
> so perhaps something on the board does not like that ?  Try disabling it 
> in the loader.conf
>
> hw.pci.enable_msi=0

Don't forget MSI-X:

hw.pci.enable_msix="0"

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