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carpman
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 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: areca 1210 problems [solved] |
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Hello, ok this not directly gentoo related but as it prevent me using gentoo and there are many wise people here i will ask.
the problem is with y areca 1210 pci-2 raid controller, i have/had 4 drives on system in 2 independent raid sets, i removed one raid set 00 which left second raid set 001. I also removed the drives.
But now on boot i get error
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ID-Lun=00-0, vol="Areca ARC-1210-vol#02 R001", Size=0(GB)
The above volumn is not in normal state.
ID-Lun=00-2, vol="Areca ARC-1210-vol#02 R001", Size=51(GB)
ID-Lun=00-3, vol="Areca ARC-1210-vol#03 R001", Size=93(GB)
ID-Lun=00-1, vol="Areca ARC-1210-vol#01 R001", Size=600(GB) |
I can see nowhere in bios to fix this?
Booting with gentoo livecd finds controller fine but i can see not partitions and get error about scsi timeout, it was working fine before i removed raid set?
many thanks
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carpman
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Hello, ok what i found is this from areca:
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Q-10180605 – The message during areca controller BIOS boot...
ID-LUN=00-0, Vol="Areca ARC-1260-VOL#01 R001", Size=0GB
The above volume is not in normal state. Enter setup menu to check!
ID-LUN=00-1, Vol="Areca ARC-1260-VOL#01 R001", Size=2.6TB No BIOS disk found. RAID controller BIOS not installed!
Some volume/RAID controller(s) failed. Press any key to continue
Requested and Answered by Vincent on 07-May-2006 (785 reads)
This is because the Raid Volume didn't get a chance to complete the initialization. To avoid this problem, either to choose "background initialization" during volume creation or choose "foreground initialization" and wait until the controller reports 100% completion before exiting the BIOS. The "background" method provides instant access but would initialize slower. The percentages of the slowness can be adjusted in "Background Task Priority" in our "Raid System Function" menu.
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Problem is that i need to reinitialise raid set but cannot see how?
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Work Station - 64bit
Gigabyte GA X48-DQ6 Core2duo E8400
8GB GSkill DDR2-1066
SATA Areca 1210 Raid
BFG OC2 8800 GTS 640mb
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Samsung Q45 7100 4gb |
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carpman
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In case anyone else has this issue, if you remove a raid set that has volumes with scsi Lun ID 0 the raid card will have a ghost array. You then need to rename the exiting volumes to one LUN scsi ID 0
So in this case i removed Raid Set 1 which had volumes with scsi Luns ID 0 1, this left Raid set 2 which had volumes scsi Lun ID 2 3 4 i reset these to 0 1 3 and all works fine.
cheers
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Gigabyte GA X48-DQ6 Core2duo E8400
8GB GSkill DDR2-1066
SATA Areca 1210 Raid
BFG OC2 8800 GTS 640mb
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Samsung Q45 7100 4gb |
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