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Previous correspondence from Brent Wiese (18:50 12-1-2004 -0700):
>3Ware cards are expensive, but you get what you pay for. Whatever code they
>have to optimize the disk use works wonders.

About a year ago I bought a set of two Escalades and placed them in
NetBSD machines. I believe the driver is a port from the FreeBSD
version. It has worked like a charm, starting I installed proper cabling.
Until that time, I received various array errors, but nothing that damaged
data. Switching to the ATA cables 3ware offers, the problem went away.

>From several people (mainly on the NetBSD lists), I heard similar reports
that the Escalade 6xxx and 7xxx are sensitive to the ATA cables you use.

Apart from that, the Escalades are worth the expense. My main issue
here was lacking a budget for them.

Cheers,

Rogier Krieger