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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Thanks, I really appreciate it. Yeah, I know it's an old card, though it's new old stock and the 1884 sounded like it was just the same hardware. (It was shrink wrapped) and it's running the latest drivers and firmware. And I have a case open with Areca, but they tend to not want to share...
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Hi folks, been a long time. I just upgraded my 15 year old ARC-1880ix-16 to an ARC-188ix-16 and it has been ... an adventure. I have been having random driver problems on and off with DPC_Watchdog timeouts but I think I isolated them to a conflict with the NIC card and the Areca and...
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    Any way to set an Areca RAID array back to "normal"

    Hi All, A few people tried to help earlier when my array failed during an expansion but it all seems to have fizzled out so I recovered as much data as I could from backup (only about 1/4 of it, though the most important data) and decided to go dramatic and try to fix it on my own. I deleted...
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    Problem with Areca ARC-1880

    Thanks odditory - I've been pretty careful after reading through a bunch of similarly themed threads about not mucking with anything too heavy. I DID erroneously pull a drive from the primary raid set and put it back in which caused it to forget it existed, but when I pulled the right drive and...
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    Problem with Areca ARC-1880

    Okay, so just a quick update - I changed to a different power chain, but only after it failed again. I THINK it's a reproducible problem. At least I was trying to watch the same recorded TV show when it went belly up. This time the drive in slot 1 showed a SMART failure before it disconnected...
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    Problem with Areca ARC-1880

    I can try a different power tree - I'm not near the server today, but as I recall, there were two power ports and I connected them both, but I will check tomorrow when I'm home. Of course, the dropouts are not reproducible. It has occurred twice now, but until I can force the primary array to...
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    Problem with Areca ARC-1880

    Thanks mwroobel, will PM jus and/or odditory a little later (assuming they don't jump on this before I get there :-) The card I have is this one: Areca ARC-1880IX-16 16-Port Full Height PCI-E x8 1GB SAS/SATA RAID Controller with breakout cables included Motherboard: SUPERMICRO...
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    Problem with Areca ARC-1880

    Hi folks, I have two questions and I'll keep 'em short :-) 1) Has anyone experienced an ARC-1880 dropping an entire enclosure? System (running in a Norco 4220 chassis) has been running steady state for a year with zero problems but the first failure occurred when I upped the total disk...
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