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Hi all,

This is my first post . So this is where all the XBX action is!

Does anyone here have a Areca 1220 RAID controller working with the Intel 975XBX2?

I can't get the drivers to load (Vista or XP). When I get to the load drivers part (in Vista) and I browse to the drivers (eiether SCISPORT or DISKPORT), the system hangs. I've tried all three PCIe slots.

The funny thing is that it works on a 975XBX (not 2) board!

If anyone has it working, please let me know how you got it working.

Thanks!

Welcome to the forums and while I wish I had an 8 Port Serial ATA RAID Controller I sadly don't.

What CPU do you have? Try disabling Core Multiplexing in the BIOS if it's a Duo or Quad. Have you checked for newer drivers from Areca?

Sean

Hi Sean,

It's a E6600. Using the latest downloadable drivers from Areca...

I've got a RocketRaid 2320 working just fine, so it's got to be the Areca.

mrloopy wrote: Does anyone here have a Areca 1220 RAID controller working with the Intel 975XBX2?

I can't get the drivers to load (Vista or XP). When I get to the load drivers part (in Vista) and I browse to the drivers (eiether SCISPORT or DISKPORT), the system hangs. I've tried all three PCIe slots.

The funny thing is that it works on a 975XBX (not 2) board!

Fyi ... mrloopy's problem with Areca 1220 RAID card is the same problem as the one documented here:

http://forums.legitreviews.com/post-65964.html#65964

I hope Intel issues a BIOX fix for it.

mrloopy wrote:Hi all,

This is my first post . So this is where all the XBX action is!

Does anyone here have a Areca 1220 RAID controller working with the Intel 975XBX2?

I can't get the drivers to load (Vista or XP). When I get to the load drivers part (in Vista) and I browse to the drivers (eiether SCISPORT or DISKPORT), the system hangs. I've tried all three PCIe slots.

The funny thing is that it works on a 975XBX (not 2) board!

If anyone has it working, please let me know how you got it working.

Thanks!

I tried both an LSI SAS HBA and the LSI SAD RAID controller.

Neither would even POST.

I tried to contact Intel support. They don't care.

Seems 3rd party raid cards (to replace that horrifying piece of crap Marvell) are seen as evil by Intel and they laugh and spit in your face when you contact them with issues about it.

Interestingly, the dual port Iintel PCIe server NIC does work in that slot, I think the Raid card bios isnt happy with the intel bios.

I have this board sitting in it's box right next to me. It would not work! I think I'm gonna sell it on ebay. It simply will not work with the xbx2.

There is a new bios, 2770, that may fix this.

"Fixed resource allocation issues with PCI cards with multiple P2P
bridges."

We should all try and report back the findings.

I installed the BIOS. No prob. But, trying to reinstall my RAID card.... not yet. I think that it would cause some heat probs with my current setup. When attempting to install previously I noticed it was a real hot card. I'm gonna have to get my CPU cooler working better first.
I'll be real interested to see if someone gets this card running though. I don't like the idea of throwing away $500. Plus, I really want to see RAID 6 in action. I know native RAID 5 sucks, I ran that for a while until I got tired of the thing rebuilding at almost every start. Even if the Areca has to rebuild it won't bog the system down too much as it has it's own processor and memory to take care of that stuff. Which is why it's so hot I guess.

hkancyr wrote:When attempting to install previously I noticed it was a real hot card.

All the SAS and some of the SATA II HBAs/RAID HBAs are very hot.

I've tried 2 HBAs here:

An LSI SAS RAID HBA ( 8308ELP )
and
LSI SAS HBA LSISAS3081E-R

Both are ridiculously hot but they ran.

However, neither worked on the D975XBX2 due to the yellow bang issue and a few other problems relating to the third ICH7R 4x PCI-express slot.

Anyways, those HBAs seem to be designed to run hot. I would maybe put a fan on the heatsink if you are worried, and that should do it.

LSI SAS HBA LSI SAS3801E / LSISAS1068

I just put this SAS HBA in on BIOS 2770

LSI SAS HBA LSISAS3081E-R

It hangs with a blinking cursor. Floppy drive light gets stuck ON.

This is simply 8 port SAS to PCI-express non raid HBA.

Cant even boot the machine.

As soon as I get my cold start problem fixed, I'll drop in the areca 1220 again.
I'll post here when I do.
Thanks for the info Mick.

hkancyr wrote:As soon as I get my cold start problem fixed, I'll drop in the areca 1220 again.
I'll post here when I do.
Thanks for the info Mick.

Ill be eagerly waiting your information. Thanks.

Get a load of this. A 3ware 8002 64 bit PCI card will boot, BIOS comes up, driver loads. But an LSI SAS HBA wont. Why are PCI-express storage controllers on this damn thing "SPECIAL"

WHY WONT INTEL ANSWER OR FIX THESE ISSUES? PCI-Express was shoved down everyone's throat by Intel, and we try to use it and it gets second class treatment?

Some guys over at 2CPU are complaining about the same problem:

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?p=696744