10.5.6 breaks Areca Raid Card 1220

Hi thought Id give a heads up to anyone with a Areca Raid card 1220 not to install 10.5.6 as after the installation the raid is no longer accessible. I have a another system disc which has 10.5.5 on it and this sees the raid no problem.

Dual 2.8 Quad, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Dec 16, 2008 3:33 PM

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Dec 17, 2008 9:17 AM in response to oceaneye

Yes. 10.5.6 made my ARC1261ML volumes disappear. I'm at about hour 36 in my attempt to fix my system. Time machine didn't help me either, luckily I had a spare 10.5.4 hdd lying around. Very very ****** about this...

That's the last time I update my software. This is BS.

Contrary to what is on apple's website 10.5.6 is NOT RECOMMENDED. It is bad news. I recieved an email from Extensis (makers of font software Suitcase Fusion) saying DO NOT UPDATE. On multiple levels 10.5.6 is bad news.

Dec 18, 2008 8:59 AM in response to oceaneye

I have the same issue with a 1680 card.....i can access everything via the CLI but i can not get the volumes to mount...hardware check is fine...volume is fine...cant see it with disk utility.... luckily its not my boot drive but i have all my important info on it. Why? because its a raid and supposed to self repair but its no good if i cant mount the $#)*$# volume. At least i know others are having the same issue

Dec 18, 2008 10:20 PM in response to oceaneye

I got a 1221x and the same problem as well, it seems all Areca RAID cards are affected. I received the same laconic email message saying they know of the problem and "are working on it"; which could mean anything from days to months - or never.

I wonder if the problem was already visible with beta releases of 10.5.6, which would mean they are not testing much (if at all) at Areca, and that perhaps I should have gotten a HighPoint product instead.

Dec 21, 2008 2:26 PM in response to Digital Fury

Same problem on 10.5.6. I was wondering if it was only a problem with Areca-as-boot-drive, but it sounds like it's across the board.

I, too, got a message that they're "working on it". I haven't had great luck with Areca support in the past; there's only one English-speaking rep, and he's well-meaning but apparently doesn't work closely with the developers.

I'm not sure how much testing they do with OS X. I do know it took them four months after the release of the early-2008 Mac Pros (with 64-bit EFI) before they had a working boot driver.

At the time, there were no competing solutions for SAS RAID controllers. The Highpoint mentioned above (RocketRaid 4320, I guess?) sounds interesting, though.. if Areca doesn't come out with a 10.5.6 fix soon, I guess I'll have to check it out...

Dec 21, 2008 4:51 PM in response to oceaneye

Phooey!

Dead in the water with an unrecognizable volume, as all have noted.

Guess I should know better than to blindly push an update at release. Fortunately, non-production array / machine, but the location of my OS backups, so stuck on this machine until Apple / Areca come up with a fix. Interesting- The controller appears to the OS, can see the array and volume in the controller's utility, but the OS won't recognize the volume.

I've posted a ticket with Areca, CineRAID and Apple- Now we wait.

Dec 22, 2008 4:12 AM in response to Ahab the Eskimo

Ahab the Eskimo wrote:
That's the last time I update my software. This is BS.


Don't quit updating your OS because of this -- if you do, over time you will end up running an OS badly out-of-date & vulnerable to many problems. Instead, modify your update strategy so that you have a fall-back plan if an incompatibility like this one occurs. One way is to clone a boot drive with the current, problem-free OS version on it so you can quickly revert to it if the need arises.

This way, you have time to wait for a fix without losing access to anything and/or time to decide if the incompatible product is sufficiently well-supported to continue using it or if you must consider replacing it.

Some strategy like this is a necessity for anyone that depends on their Macs for their livelihood, & a prudent precaution for everyone else. It is an especially good idea if you use products from smaller, less established companies that may not have the resources to do the R&D necessary to insure complete compatibility with OS X or to quickly develop fixes for problems that are revealed by changes in the OS or the hardware that runs it.

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