Areca Error

[jmo]

Its not an instruction set issue its a broken firmware. [...]

Ah, I got it. Thanks for the clarification!

Jens

[beng]

G'day Jens,
Sorry I mistyped when I wrote my reply. Nightmare is 100% correct, it's the firmware that is the problem.
According to an Adaptec tech I had a very long discussion with, there is a discrepancy in the interpretation of the SATA/SAS standards between Seagate and Adaptec(and probably others).
So that we have one vendor, in this case Seagate, interpreting the standard in one way, and Adaptec saying "No it means this.....". As Nightmare said, it seems to be Intel IOPS based cards, which I think drive about 80% of the RAID cards out there :-(
So the compromise is a "RAID Specific" firmware controlled by Adaptec.
At least they now have it available as a link, and you don't have to "Apply for it".
But of course to improve the saleability of their Seagates NS (Nearline) drives to enterprise, it would make good marketing sense not to provide it for their AS (Desktop) versions....
I have learnt the hard way that if it's not listed on the vendors HCL, it's a gamble.

Rgds Ben