Areca FAQ System - Q10070903- When my ARC-1680ix-24 is installed in my Intel DG45ID system, the system does not display anything during boot. I can access the 1680 via the integrated Ethernet port, but the rest of the system is unusable. As soon as the 1680 is removed, the system operates and displays normally.

Q10070903- When my ARC-1680ix-24 is installed in my Intel DG45ID system, the system does not display anything during boot. I can access the 1680 via the integrated Ethernet port, but the rest of the system is unusable. As soon as the 1680 is removed, the system operates and displays normally.

Please update the bootcode file ARC1680boot.bin to date:2009-3-12 through the integrated Ethernet port. It can solve your Intel DG45ID with Intel IOP348 RAID adapter compatible issue.

Tags: ARC-1680ix-24, bootcode, ethernet, install

Last update:: 2022-01-06 07:58
Author:: Simone
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Q10051307 - Will a bad disk cause a controller "timeout" (300 s) at boot?
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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?
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Q10041308 - Will the ARC-1224-8I work with Windows 2000?
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Q10011312 - I am not able to access/see the ARECA RAID bios upon using Gigabyte z77-up5 TH M/B.
Q10021312 - I have an Areca 1882ix-12 card with firmware 1.51 and upgrade to firmware 1.52. I reboot my Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H, the card 'disappears'. It simply won't get detected unless I remove my graphics card and use the built in Intel HD4000 graphics integrated to the CPU.
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.
Q10061312 - Expand the volume set, Windows does not show the added capacity. Windows shows original capacity before and after the expansion.
Q10011202- Install the Areca driver (version 1.20.00.20) into Oracle Solaris 5.11 (November 2011) and the errors “undefined symbol” occurs after the pkgadd command.
Q10021202- Install latest driver 1.20.00.22-20120105 with Oracle Solaris 11, it can then see the drives. When I reboot Solaris starts to load then the machine reboots.
Q10031202 - I have a supermicro database server with ARC-1680. It have lost connection to the sas expander backplane (in the same chassis): Enclosure#3 : LSILOGICSASX28 A.0 7015(0:8).The log is full of errors like this: 2012-01-18 08:55:48 Enc#3 SES2Device Time Out Error
Q10041202 - There is something broken with either the cards or the drivers in that the card takes the entire RAID down on the 1680 adapters and on the 188x adapters when a single drive exhibits timeout errors.
Q10051202 - For VMWare ESXI 5.0, the installation was easy, the arcmsr driver is loading but does not find any device on SuperMicro X9SCL+-F.
Q10011203- This customer has problem copying files from a pass through drive to raid under ARC-1880i. Copying between raid sets is working fine.
Q10021203 - There is a compatibility problem replacing the existing ARC-1210 with a newer one ARC- 1212. After the replacement the windows server OS does not boot properly.
Q10031203 - Do all Areca RAID cards support or rely on TLER, CCTL or ERC Algorithms for Drive Error Detection?
Q10041203 - Using Supermicro X8DAE with ARC-1880ix-12 under FreeBSD 8.1, it will show arcmsr0: scsi id 0 lun 0 cmd=0x12 srb='0xffffff8b89168000' ccb command time out!
Q10051203 - X8DTi-LN4F rev 1.02 with ARC-1882 on any PCIe slot, cold boot can not detect adapter. Warm boot can detect the adapter.
Q10061203 - Installing RHEL 6.2 doesn’t work with the ARC-1882i controllers plugged in X8DTH-IF-B BIOS Version: 2.0c. It start to load of installer got stuck at "Waiting for hardware initialization".
Q10071203 - Archttp 64 has a pretty bad memory leak using the latest firmware on an arc-1680-ix under a 3.2 linux kernel if I let the auto-refresh on the hardware information page stay open.
Q10081203 - ARC-1223-8i with gigabyte ga-a75-UD4H Motherboard BIOS Version: 8a. After the BIOS boot controller is not starting to give the alarm continuously. The controller works fine.
Q10011204 - GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 power lost, ARC-1210 RAID controller was not detectable by BIOS at bootup unless I removed the cable from the Areca battery backup unit.
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.
Q10041204 - Installed an ARC-1882ix-12 with firmware version: V1.49 and created a 8 disk Raid 10, the controller card has stopped the foreground initialization at 99.6% and has been at that point.
Q10011208 - Supermicro X8DTN+-F motherboard with BIOS version 2.1c, we try to install Centos/RedHat 6.2 on this M/B that uses one Areca RAID Card (ARC-1882). CentOS 6.2 still shows 'no usable disks' in anaconda.
Q10021208 - With ARC-1882ix-24, it sometimes hangs at the X8STE motherboard bios screen after reboot and sometimes hangs at Linux OS boot up screen after reboot.
Q10031208 - With the OCZ vertex 4 drives, when Arc-1882ix initialization starts it goes immediately to 100% and then often locks up the raid utility and the initialization never actually starts.
Q10011210 - Installed the ARC-1882i in the GA-Z77X-UP4 TH PCIex8 and PCIex4 slot, when booting, I do not see any MCBIOIS screens at all.
Q10021210 - We test install CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on Supermicro X9SCL-LN4 with ARC-1882i and can not start the installation and hang.
Q10031210 - I want to Install VMware 5.1 on a SM 6027B-URF. The boot CD does not recognize any disks after Raidset and volume set on the ARC-1222.
Q10041210 - When can we expect a driver for windows server 2012? Does the current windows 2008r2 64bit driver work?
Q10011211 - The ARC-1882ix-12 never boot with the bad (not spin at all) WD VelociRaptor HD. If insert 3 or more disks (Known good) any warm boot will hang at the 300 screen.
Q10021211 - Is it possible to insert a larger DIMM on ARC-1882ix-16 PCIe 2.0 SAS controller, such as 16 GB. I am using a large number of small files and am looking to maximise I/O on the card.
Q10031211 - ARC-1882i pcb version 3.1 (PCIe gen3 enabled) is operating at PCIe2 speeds using ASUS rampage 4 extreme, but it should be at PCIe3. Link status says 8X/5G.
Q10041211 - We have seen logins ("HTTP Log In") from many IP in the event log. Is there a known problem with a backdoor/security issue?
Q10051211 - Customer reconfigures as R5+spare. But system would not start to initialize it.
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.
Q10021212 - We do not get any LED drive activity when using an Areca ARC-1882ix-4G Version 3, Intel 520 Series Solid State Drives Model # SSDSC2CW480A310 and Chenbro chassis model. The Chenbro chassis model with the identified integrated Drive Backplanes and LED Board Module parts are: Chenbro Chassis Model # RM41416M2 Chenbro Drive Backplanes Model # 80H10321516A1 F:VI Chenbro LED Board Module Model # 80H033215-005 Rev:A3
Q10031212 - I'm testing here with a NDS4600 box that contains 60 drives. When I connect it to an ARC-1882x, it only sees 32 drives.
Q10041212 - What’s parity distribution for an Areca RAID 5 array?
Q10051212 - Firmware update process states “Please refer to chapter 6.1, “ Web browser-based RAID configuration for details on establishing the connection. Where is the document with chapter 6.1?
Q10061212 - In the long term I/O test, I had found disk hanging on only in the situation of Windows 8 or Windows 2012 with "muti-test-tools" using storeport driver 6.20.00.22 and new 6.20.00.23 . With SCSIPORT driver 6.20.00.22 everything works fine.