Recent content by lutkos

I, too, noted performance issues when copying huge amounts of data between two RAID6 volumes. To me it seems that the drives I am using might at least be partially responsible. In the past I had two arrays on my 1680-ix24: a RAID6 volume consisting of seven 1TB Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 and...

Well, considering that the Areca controller uses a phone jack instead of a 9-pin serial connector, I had little choice other than to use the serial adapter cable that came with my Areca controller to connect it to a standard serial port. The pin-out of the internal serial header on my Intel...

Tell me about it. I actually did this a few weeks ago. Wouldn't have been any trouble at all, if not for the onboard serial connector of my Intel server board having a different pin-out than any of my serial port slot adapters. In the end I resoldered one of them to fit the MB. Of course I had...

I just got the beta firmware 1.48 dated 2010-04-09 from Areca support, which supposedly eliminates the SES2 issues between the ARC1680 and the expander. For good measure I checked the Areca site and found that they have released an even newer version 1.48 beta firmware for their 1680 adapters...

Thanks for all your suggestions :) Greatly appreciated. I am a little bit further now. I tested different connections between the 1680ix-24 and the expander: 1. external port to external port: does not work. The 1680 is not initializing the firmware 2. internal port 5 of the Areca (SAS...

Hi guys, I'm new as a poster, but have read this thread in the past with huge interest. A few week ago my HP SAS Expander finally arrived. It took my supplier in Germany nearly three months to deliver it. Now I am testing, but haven't had any luck, yet, to make it work with my Areca 1680ix-24...