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Q10030407 - I already created FreeBSD 5.2.1 install floppies from your support CD, but I can't install it. System will reboot automatically after kernel loaded. 1759
Q10030810- Does ARC-1220 works with FreeBSD 6.3? Does it need special drivers, or recompile the kernel? 1074
Q10040805 - The motherboard is a DFI Infinity NF UltraII-M2 board. It has a nForce4 chipset. I 1275
Q10050411 - How can I get the Areca PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller system error messages and controller event log with Linux, and FreeBSD? 1991
Q10050703 - Testing my Areca controller on a FreeBSD 6.2 i386 system. Write a lot of data via FTP through a 100Mbit/s line on a RAID5 with 3 x 500GB hard drives. After approx. 150GB written I received the following error and the system crashed: > g_vfs_done():da1s1d[WRITE(offset=305809178624, length=2048)]error = 5 2641
Q10060407 - Could you advise us the types of memory we could use in Areca PCI RAID controller? It is difficult to find the right type of memory, SO-DIMMS with ECC (but not buffered) are hard to find. 1917
Q10060606 - I am having a problem configuring the controller in FreeBSD 6.1. It all works out ok, the OS detects the card and I use the drivers you supply in the website. The only problem is that when I try creating the partition using the fdisk/label from sysinstall I am getting a "disk geometry" error. Apparently the geometry is not correct, if there a way that I could check the geometry of the volume/drive that are attach to the controller, please let me know. 2187
Q10120603 - I'm considering buying the ARC-1210. Do you have any plans to support FreeBSD 6? 2198
Q10130406 - What Version of FreeBSD support is available for Areca PCI-X ARC-11XX and PCI-E ARC-12XX series products? 2113