Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:07:16 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Matt Douhan" <matt@hasta.se>, "Francisco Reyes" <lists@natserv.com>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SV: Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card? Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20031124140438.08353890@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <IIEBLFJCECCIAJIHMKNPEEDBCCAA.matt@hasta.se> References: <20031124134504.H80167@zoraida.natserv.net> <IIEBLFJCECCIAJIHMKNPEEDBCCAA.matt@hasta.se>
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its slow in RAID5, but thats more RAID5 than anything. This is a 3W-7810
offsite% grep twe /var/run/dmesg.boot
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xc000-0xc00f mem
0xe9000000-0xe97fffff,0xe9800000-0xe980000f irq 15 at device 1.0 on pci1
twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.056, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.046
twed0: <Unit 0, TwinStor, Normal> on twe0
twed0: 38165MB (78163312 sectors)
twed1: <Unit 2, RAID5, Normal> on twe0
twed1: 763134MB (1562898560 sectors)
twe0: command interrupt
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/twed0s1a
offsite%
... However, it can easily handle 10Mb/s streamed at it which is what we
need it for since its our offsite backup server :) Our experience in 0,1
and 10 have been really great.
offsite% uname -a
FreeBSD offsite.sentex.ca 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Thu Nov 13
14:17:48 EST 2003
---Mike
At 01:55 PM 24/11/2003, Matt Douhan wrote:
>-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
>Fran: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>
><Have not played with these cards recently, but just FYI I have had much
><better success with them with Raid 1,0 than with Raid 5.
><
><At one point I also think I had a raid 10 setup (if memory serves me well)
><and that also did fairly well. Don't know if newer cards or newer versions
><of FreeBSD do better with Raid 5.
>_
>
>
>7:50pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > dmesg | grep -i 3ware
>twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xd400-0xd40f mem
>0xf5000000-0xf57fffff,0xf5800000-0xf580000f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0
>
>7:50pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > uname -a
>FreeBSD rabarber.internal.hasta.se 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #2: Wed Jan
>15 22:08:29 CET 2003
>root@rabarber.internal.hasta.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RABARBER i386
>
>7:51pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > df -h
>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/twed0s1a 1008M 42M 905M 4% /
>/dev/twed0s1g 977G 268G 650G 29% /net/rabarber
>/dev/twed0s1f 9.8G 1.3G 8.0G 14% /usr
>/dev/twed0s1e 9.8G 1.4G 7.9G 15% /var
>procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
>7:51pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ >
>
>ID 0 3ware 3W-7850 disk controller
>Array Unit 0 Striped with Parity 64K (RAID 5) 1068.68 GB OK
>
>
>This works great for us on STABLE, we have crashed disks, rebuilt arrays,
>added drives and so on and it have never failed us so far.
>
>My experience is very good with these cards
>
>rgds
>
>Matt
>
>
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