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. ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:09:04 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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! :) >> _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline_______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
