1. I did go back through the BIOS. I even did the CTRL+F1 to get extra settings to appear. I tried disabling all sorts of stuff. No dice. :(
2. I'm somewhat convinced that the issue isn't BIOS related since the Highpoint controller works perfectly. Aside from no SMART support since the highpoint cli isn't installed, that's my only gripe.
3. Since the VT-d works great on the Highpoint controller I'm not sure if the VT-d of the motherboard isn't capable or what...
4. I'm somewhat convinced that the Areca just can't play with VT-d correctly in non-Windows environments.
5. I totally think that this would be a way to solve the problem. Too bad I'm not able to play with it myself.
6. I think that's plausible too. Of course, proving the exact problem is almost certainly impossible
I'm not sure how much support I can expect from Areca. This card is almost certainly discontinued/EOL. The firmware was last updated in 2010 with the card first being manufactured in 2006 if not earlier.
This card has been amazing up until now. I had so many problems with Highpoint I abandoned their controller and bought the Areca. Later I found out that the problem wasn't entirely Highpoint's fault. Seagate had crappy firmware and the hard drive and RAID controller just didn't play well together. Buying the Areca meant the end of my problems. After having hard drives dropping out of the RAID all of the time with the Highpoint I replaced them with WD Green drives since I didn't feel like I could trust Seagate anymore.
I did install the ESXi drivers for my Areca card. I didn't expect it to do anything, but I figured I had nothing to lose. Needless to say, it didn't help.
2. I'm somewhat convinced that the issue isn't BIOS related since the Highpoint controller works perfectly. Aside from no SMART support since the highpoint cli isn't installed, that's my only gripe.
3. Since the VT-d works great on the Highpoint controller I'm not sure if the VT-d of the motherboard isn't capable or what...
4. I'm somewhat convinced that the Areca just can't play with VT-d correctly in non-Windows environments.
5. I totally think that this would be a way to solve the problem. Too bad I'm not able to play with it myself.
6. I think that's plausible too. Of course, proving the exact problem is almost certainly impossible
I'm not sure how much support I can expect from Areca. This card is almost certainly discontinued/EOL. The firmware was last updated in 2010 with the card first being manufactured in 2006 if not earlier.
This card has been amazing up until now. I had so many problems with Highpoint I abandoned their controller and bought the Areca. Later I found out that the problem wasn't entirely Highpoint's fault. Seagate had crappy firmware and the hard drive and RAID controller just didn't play well together. Buying the Areca meant the end of my problems. After having hard drives dropping out of the RAID all of the time with the Highpoint I replaced them with WD Green drives since I didn't feel like I could trust Seagate anymore.
I did install the ESXi drivers for my Areca card. I didn't expect it to do anything, but I figured I had nothing to lose. Needless to say, it didn't help.