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I want to thank Synergydusrtin for coming through with a flawless hp expander card with lastest firmware 2.06. I have to say this was my problem the whole time. The new card with lastest firmware solved everything. My areca 1880i is now posting perfect without the a11 pin taped, link agression...

Not sure what happen to last event of raid expansion and all my previous post. I was able to modify volume and expand raid set with increased size by adding another hard drive to the mix. this time all went well in storage manager area of windows 7 ultimate. Now new size is matched with MY...

I have had problems with the spin down settings dropping array. When flashing seagate st3200542AS firmware from cc34 to cc35,I would suggest one drive at a time and verify that the drive is seen in array correct. During the time I flash mine, I flash three at a time. This caused me a failure but...

ok it looks like it's set to gpt disk andwill not allow mbr switch. sees it different and windows wont see anything larger than 6tb in my computer.

I dont see the expand volume set. There is expand raid set,or modify volume set. I see 6tb fine in windows storage manager. I think it was mbr I cannot see that, where would I find info? My partion wizard software does not see that drive letter for that array for some reason. It wont let the...

This is a good question and I have seen the same thing. I will be seeing a new hp card here soon with updated 2.06 software and I will report back on the findings. I wonder if Odditory can give us a little insight on the way the card lays the drives out in the mcraid ap. I need some help on...

I expanded my raid6 array from 4tb to 6tb on my Areca 1880i. Why would windows 7 64 ultimate not reconize the full 6tb after the expansion in my computer? All drive sizes read correct in windows manager and in the mcaraid software :(there a way to correct?

Odditory, You are correct they do show correct and operate at sata300 when directly connected to Areca raid card. So is that a faulty card when it wont pass correct?:mad:

Odditory I have my seagate raid6 array also negotiating speeds at reduced sata 150 rate. I have read post in the past that this was corrected by a faulty card replacement. I have the newer seagate sata600 drive which shows correct speeds through the expander. Also the raid 0 array states...

Sonywii here is some info for you hope it helps:D http://www.areca.com.tw/support/main.htm

Ok Odditory I've tracked down the issue I was having getting My dual link up and seeing different arrays on my Areca 1880i and HP sas expander. Before my HP expander card arrived I set up two raid arrays for my Areca 1880i. 1st array was Raid6 seagate drives on channel 1, My second array was...

:):Areca told me current firmware supports 3tb drives and have been tested by them.

Can array that has been created in raid0 be migrated to raid6 or raid 5? if raid I have raid 0 with say two drives, can I add a hot swap and modify array to say raid 5. Or is the only way to delete array and migrate data:confused:

Chriscicc, I had the same problem on my 1880i card and hp sas expander droping drives and losing the array. I Thank Odditory for past post and advice getting the setup stable. I notice the hp expander chip is extreamly hot and made myself a temporary cooler setup. I used the old cpu cooler fan...

Yes I have a few extra raptor drives that I want to expand on my array. Are ports 8c 9c the correct ones to throughput for internal between my 1880i ports 1 & 2. I cannot get the card to see array when two cable are linked on card starting each array from expander on ports 2c and 3c. The weird...

Just wondering why my raid card works with expander on 9c. Early post said to connect to 8c. Just to verify hp expander card will only dual link with software 2.06? Should I be able to connect regardless to 8c from outpput of controller card. Should it matter on which port of my raid controller...

So far seem ok being enabled, So if the firmware is flashed 2.06 should enable dual link fine/? need to get mine flashed no workarounds,

Strange thing is mine does not like the dual link setup yet. Works good when connected to 9c. I did not see anything in the areca manual on ses2 setting. Sould this be enabled?

Is there any other way to force the expander 2.06 firmware update without a hp p410 controller :confused:

;)OK Thanks for the support Odditory. Got that dam expander up running on the 1880i areca controller. Must of been the a11 pin not covered correctly and setting the ses2 support to disabled. Was there a post on the leds and what there state is?

I will try all those suggestions tonight.Are there any unanswered question about these cards that need to be cleared up with HP support? I will try to grab some more info thanks again

I really not intrested in another raid card as the areca is a much better platform. Has there been any issue with the 1880i card linking up to the hp expander? what other test can be done to verify hp card operation besides purchasing another raid card? Are there any sites with documentaion on...

Thnks odditory and treadstone for your help on previous post. I went back and read the info on signal at the a11 pin. The chip heat sink is quite warm and still this setup is not liking the card. My motherboard is a msi x58 pro-e. What motherboard is a plug and play with this adapter card? Could...

Card was purchased on ebay out of texas new

msi x58 pro-e, seagate 2tb

well tried the pin 11 tape seem to show steady blink on led 6 along with steady on for 1,2,&3. Still cannot get the areca1880i card to post past f/w with any of the the cables connected to hp expander. As soon as they are removed no problems. firmware update? again this is a new card. Read most...

Just installed my new hp expander today on motherboard and tried to dual link through my areca raid1880i with no sucess. The areca card will not post past f/w and times out. I have tried all ports to reconize drives single cable on port 8 dual cable on 8&9 nothing. the only way to get raid...