Areca 1882ix-8 "Waiting for F/W to become ready"

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Been having a few issues the past couple of weeks where when powering up my file server, it gets stuck on the "Waiting for F/W to become ready" boot screen. Then ends up rebooting every 300 seconds in a endless loop.

The server isn't powered on 24/7 due to the insane amount of power it draws :rolleyes: but I have had no issues with doing this for the past year or so.

This issue only seems to happen on every 3rd or 4th boot up.

If I kill the power to the server, wait 30~ seconds and power it all back up it's fine.

I understand that removing the battery can help resolve this issue (http://serverfault.com/questions/29...nt-initialize-waiting-for-f-w-to-become-ready), which I have tried.

My setup:
  • Supermicro X9SCM-F
  • Xeon 1245
  • 16GB RAM
  • Areca 1882ix-8 with BBU
  • Chenbro CK23601 expander
  • 8x Hitachi 5K3000 3TB drives in RAID6
  • 12x Hitachi 7K3000 3TB drives in RAID10 (currently unplugged though)

Any suggestions on what could be causing this?
 
It takes forever (30 secs to 2 minutes) it is what it is..
Try "sleep mode" stuff..that way you can avoid the noid.
 
But it never gets past that and just reboots and starts over again. Only way to get past this is to kill the power completely!
 
I have actually seen pulling the card out of the system., letting it post up without the card installed, and then installing it again cause that to go away (sometimes putting it in a different slot than it was originally)..If you have an option to reset the ESCD info on your board you could try that first (if you don't have that option, you could try resetting the BIOS, but sometimes that config data doesn't get slicked)

Check for mobo BIOS updates and card F/W updates.

I have seen that be a flaky mobo, and I have seen that be the card itself. If I remember correctly, some of it had to do with the card syncing with the PCI Express bus properly.

Been awhile though since we have really had this issue...used to see it quite a bit on the some of their older cards.

Dan
 
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