From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 21:04:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3644516A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:04:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca (avscan2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB1243D1F for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:04:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9QL4020003884; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:04:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (avscan2.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03690-03; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:04:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9QL40hj003861; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:04:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9QL3q2F096679; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:03:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041026165755.03ab35f0@64.7.153.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@64.7.153.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:10:10 -0400 To: cmills@borderware.com From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <1127.209.152.53.188.1098822627.squirrel@209.152.53.188> References: <417E6F2A.9020508@borderware.com> <1127.209.152.53.188.1098822627.squirrel@209.152.53.188> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at avscan2b cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:04:03 -0000 At 04:30 PM 26/10/2004, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > Hello > > > > I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware > > 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I was previously using a Promise > > controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card. > >This is something of a FAQ. > >There's a long list of people using 3ware 6/7/8xxx series cards in FreeBSD >4.x boxes with great success. AFAIK that extends to 5.x as well. Yes, I am one who always seems to pipe up. I use this very card specifically on a busy pop3/imap server. The mail spool is made up of 4 drives in RAID10 and 2 other ports are used for the base OS in RAID1. Its been in service in this config for over a year without issue. When it comes time to replace bad drives, all has worked as expected for us. We dont use hot swap trays (dont really trust the electrical design of many of them), so we do it while powered down. Literally, shutdown, pull the bad drive, put in the new, go into the BIOS (or you can use the cmd line tools), add the new drive to the RAID set, exit out and let it boot and thats it. The controller rebuilds in the background and notifies you when done. There were at some point a bad batch of 7000 series cards that needed to be RMA'd (perhaps 2+ yrs ago now ?). But other than that one time hardware issue, they work great on all the platforms we have (i386 on FreeBSD, Linux, Win2k). We also use most of the other cards, except for the 9xxx series which we have no experience with yet. ---Mike