DO NOT INSTALL FIRMWARE 1.52 FOR ARECA-8050 IF YOU ARE USING SSDS AS YOUR BOOT DISK OR RESET PRAM!
This is my first post on Pixelreeder – part of my job at our studio is keeping the equipment running. The above warning will hopefully help people avoid our issue with a SSDs in our Areca machine.
It all stems from a bug we needed to fix in Mountian Lion. We had a problem when the OS marked our raid 5 partition as hidden and greyed out the icon. We think the cause is a full time machine, but we aren’t sure. You can read about our fix here, it involves one line of code. In the process of finding this fix we decided to update the firmware on our Areca-8050 external unit.
As you can guess, we ran into some very scary problems.