Controller starts rebuilding/migrating in two conditions
1. Stay in controller bios manager or
2. Boot into os and the controller driver loaded.
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Q10051211 - Customer reconfigures as R5+spare. But system would not start to initialize it.
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- 2022-01-06 08:31
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- Simone
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- Q10011303 - With each new firmware, the boot time for the controller has increased. The version before 1.41 would boot in about 12 seconds. 1.41 took about 20-28 seconds. Now version 1.51 takes about 40 seconds. Why is each new version taking longer for the firmware to boot?
- Q10021303 - Mac OS X 10.8.2 built-in driver detects 1882X card and his volume and can use it without any problem. When we try to install mraid, the installation will freeze.
- Q10031303 - ARC-1880ix-16 has a mistake in controller firmware, LED control command did not been properly forwarded. It shows the function "Empty HDD Slot LED" no effect.
- Q10041303 - I bought areca 1213-4i. I know, that yours adapter can create raid in MBR with 3 TB and more, but i don't understand how to do it.
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- Q10031304 - ARC-1882ix-16 BIOS does not show on cold boot with Supermicro X8DT3-LN4F BIOS version = 2.1.
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- Q10071304 - I cannot see RAID 1 volume on the ARC-1200 board. I added Areca ESXI arcmsr 1.20.0.15 driver to the ESXI 5.1 ISO media.
- Q10081304 - Updated ARC-1882ix-12 to bootcode date: 2013-4-2 on your website and now my HP Z820 computer BIOS = 3.06 will not boot.
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- Q10021307 - I recently added 2 drives and expanded the RAID and the volume. Now the computer (MacPro) still sees the Volume with 8TB size when it should be 12TB.
- Q10031307 - Using the “Set Disk To Be Failed” to kill out the disk, it can show normal status on other RAID adapters.
- Q10041307 - I am using the ArcHTTP email alerts set to warning messages from my areca cards, every day I receive 2 emails saying there has been a proxy or in-band http log in, but no one logged in at that time.
- Q10051307 - Will a bad disk cause a controller "timeout" (300 s) at boot?
- Q10061307 - Areca 1224 volume can be ejected without confirmation, if there is no activity on it. This requires restart which is not acceptable for us.
- Q10071307 - We have a server using ARC-1222 with Windows 2012 installed with Areca driver version 6.20.00.26 which was running without problems. It has something wrong with 6.20.00.27 for Windows 2012.
- Q10081307 - What are the safe ranges for the ARC-1882 processor temperature?
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- Q10101307 - Updating to the latest Windows driver we found our system to be unbootable. How can we roll the driver back to the last version?
- Q10011308 - Install W2K8 on a two array partition of the ARC-1222. The driver loading and RAID volumes are now listed. Unfortunately, when I try to install (Disk 1 Partition 1, 232.8 GB, Type: System), Windows throws: “Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition”.
- Q10021308 - I got issue when I install Win 2012 using ARC-1213-4i, write through mode and 4x WD5003ABYX (3 for RAID 5 & 1 for hotspare). After completed the installation, the first time boot in the OS, the system shows DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error.
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- Q10041308 - Will the ARC-1224-8I work with Windows 2000?
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- Q10061308 - We receive the error message when installing Archttp under the Mac 10.8.x for installer from an "unidentified developer".
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- Q10081308 - Is there a way to tell from the unix command line if the RAID controller is a -12, -16 or -24?
- Q10011309 - File "ARC1880BIOS.BIN" contained in Firmware V1.52 for the 1880/1213/1223 series fails to update using either DosFlash [V1.50] or ArcHttp [V2.3.4].
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- Q10031312 - SuperMicro X9DRW-iF can not work with ARC-1882ix-24 using Riser card RSC-R2UW-4E8 on the upper slot.
- Q10041312 - I would like to know if it’s possible to do an unattended or silent installation of Archttp and Arc CLI?
- Q10051312 - I would like Areca 1200 Raid manage on Hyper-V R2 OS (Windows Core installation) but ArcHTTP is installed through DOS command line.
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- Q10031203 - Do all Areca RAID cards support or rely on TLER, CCTL or ERC Algorithms for Drive Error Detection?
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- Q10021204 - Using ARC-1222 with ARC-6120BA-T113 BBM, after some time Battery Status will change to failed. Power cycle again will clear the battery status to charging state.
- Q10031204 - Using an Areca ARC-1880i with MSI interrupt support on recent versions of DragonFly 3.1 causes disk throughput to slow to a crawl after a while.
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- Q10041210 - When can we expect a driver for windows server 2012? Does the current windows 2008r2 64bit driver work?
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- Q10011212 - Under MAC PRO machine, put ARC-1882X PCB version 3.0 on PCIe 2.0 16X, it will show 8x X 2.5G not 8x X 5.0G on Raid Web GUI.
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