On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Sebastian Schmitzdorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the problem. To make double sure, I threw in a CD of the latest Arch Linux and it saw both the card and the RAID 1 set. I was able to create partitions, filesystems, and move around files. At this point, I started wondering about the driver and the fact that this is a rev. B card. Upon closer inspection, support for this card (and all over Marvell firmware-based Areca cards) was added in version 1.72 - 1.75 of arc.c. According to CVS, this version made it into OPENBSD_4_3. The only change since release has been the addition to control the LEDs via bioctl. So, is it the firmware? the definition in pcidevs? I'm just baffled as to why the card shows up but the drives don't. I really, really don't want to keep Linux on this machine, so _any_ help is greatly appreciated. -- Ryan Corder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
