Recent content by zeki893

resurrecting an old thread, but I have a 1880 with ssds and i just experienced a time out error. This system has been up for 4 months till I got hit with this. The drive seems to have dropped out of the raid, but was still recognized by the card in a normal state. I just set it as hot spare and...

Maybe not enough power under load. That's why it disappears during load? I've had similar problem where my 1880-ix will disappear from the system while initializing drives, but didn't hang the system, everything else is still running. My system didn't complain about voltage, but after I put...

Are there any snmp oids that can tell me any IO stats for my areca card? I tried googling this but i guess my googling skillz suck.. or maybe it is non-existant.

Well it didn't work before the beta firmware so it wasn't supported.

Ya its confirmed with Areca that it doesn't support it because it's a SAS2 expander. They gave me a beta firmware that I'm going to try.

I had a SAS-846EL1 lying around and it works with that. I contacted areca so hopefully they'll get back to me soon.

I am trying to use an Areca ARC-1680ix with the SuperChassis 847E16-RJBOD1. the backplane is BPN-SAS2-846EL1-7EL1 + BPN-SAS2-847EL1. I have connected the areca card to J0 on the BPN-SAS2-846EL1-7EL1 backplane. This causes the raid card to timeout during bootup. Are the areca cards compatible...