From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 03:47:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591D816A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from myhosting.de (ns.myhosting.de [212.172.50.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 643C643D2D for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:47:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newsletter@theflow.de) Received: (qmail 77189 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2004 11:47:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (webmaster@theflow.de@217.237.80.20) by 0 with SMTP; 26 Feb 2004 11:47:29 -0000 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: newsletter@theflow.de (Florian Munz) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:47:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1g9rk6c.57jwtythr7rcM%newsletter@theflow.de> User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.6b1 (Mac OS X version 10.3.2) Subject: 3ware confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:47:34 -0000 Hi, my new server has an 3ware 7006-2 Raid Controller and should become my production server for webhosting. I'm now a little bit confused which release of FreeBSD I should use. It's a dual PIII so I'm tempted to use 5.2 and I thought for the controller I also need 5.x because of the improved twe driver. But now there is also the beta-driver from 3ware for 4.8 available, so that's another possibilty. Do I need other tools like 3dm? Can somebody recommend which release I should use (besides from 5.2 not beeing STABLE yet)? thanks in advance, Florian