Hi, it's been a while since I used areca controllers. At that time there were some controller bios settings you had to use for proper disk spin up. You can set the timing for the disk spinup. Also it used to be recommended to disable the quickboot option in your bios.
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I unfortunately don't have a full dmesg output to send everyone, but I'm hoping I can provide enough to figure out what is wrong. Today I was trying to install 4.3 from my official CDs, but got stopped once I found that the kernel could not see the drives attached to my ARC-1200. According to the card's BIOS, I have one fully initialized RAID 1 array between two drives -- the kernel boot prompt even lists 'hd0+*'. However, once the kernel (bsd.rd on amd64) boots, it sees the card, but never the drives. So, I get a line like this: arc0 at pci11 dev 14 function 0 "*Areca* ARC-1200" rev B: apic 8 int 0 (irq 10) but I don't get anything more, like: arc0: 2 ports, 128MB SDRAM, firmware V1.44 2008-3-20 or _most_ importantly: sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <*Areca*, ARC-1200-VOL#00, R001> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 476837MB, 56514 cyl, 36 head, 480 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 976562176 sec total any thoughts? Is the RAMDISK_CD on 4.3 that much different from GENERIC? I looked in CVS and saw that both 'arc* at pci?' and 'scsibus* at arc?'. What am I missing? thanks. ryanc
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