Areca Disk Adapter Question

[Richard Tector]

On 06/12/2009 02:26, Karl Denninger wrote:
> BUT BUT BUT - there is no way to clear the devices nodes from FreeBSD!
> If I attempt a "camcontrol rescan all" after pulling a set the machine
> instantly panics with uncompleted I/Os to the disks I did not tamper
> with - whether I tell the adapter I did it first or not.
>
> With the 3ware drivers this is propagated through properly.  Not so with
> the Areca drivers.  This is a fairly major problem in that it appears
> that anything you do that causes a "da" device served by these boards to
> disappear causes an instant panic.  While this is expected behavior if
> the device is in active use, it really, really sucks if it's not, as it
> makes it flatly impossible to, for example, pull a disk carrier that has
> a big drive on it you just ran a dump to.

It may be worth you taking this up with Areca support also. I have a 
handful of their cards at work and one at home and had some issues with 
the HTTP interface on amd64 recently. They'd got back to me with a 
solution within a couple of days.

Richard