Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:07:12 -0500 From: ravi pina <ravi@cow.org> To: mathias@haas.se Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware confusion Message-ID: <20040226150712.GB385@happy.cow.org> In-Reply-To: <19833.193.14.163.194.1077796903.squirrel@mail.haas.se> References: <1g9rk6c.57jwtythr7rcM%newsletter@theflow.de> <19833.193.14.163.194.1077796903.squirrel@mail.haas.se>
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:01:43PM +0100, mathias@haas.se said at one point in time: > Hi Florian! > > I was a bit confused as well, I recently bought a 8506 and after I > installed FreeBSD 5.2 I discovered that there were beta drivers for 4.8. > But as I remember it, it's the same drivers that are included in 5.2. > I have had some strange problems (none critical, yet) with my 3ware > controller under 5.2, but I haven't tried it under 4.x, so I can't tell if > there's a difference. > hi. there are, as best i can tell, two different drivers for twe. there is the built in kernel support which works with 4.x and 5.x and there is the kernel module which i know exists for 4.x and probably exists for 5.x. i can't speak to what works or doesn't in 5.x but for 4.x you can use the 3dm web utility to manage your card with the builtin kernel support only. if you want to use the new cli tool (which i find very nice), you will have to disable the twe support in your kernel config, rebuild the kernel and use the kenrel module to access the device. the beta driver that is on 3ware's site is a snapshot of the following: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/modules/twe http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/twe hope that helps. oh, and what kind of strangeness have you been having? i'be been using the card for years and have had a few problems with it. not sure if its fair to blame the card for them but it is suspect. -r
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