From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 05:20:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465E816A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 05:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.numachi.com (mail2.numachi.com [198.175.254.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BF7343D2D for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 05:20:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 68521 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 05:20:54 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by mail2.numachi.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2004 05:20:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 31785 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Sep 2004 05:20:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 05:20:54 +0000 From: Brian Reichert To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040901052054.GV4846@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: how 'supported' are 3ware Escalade controllers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 05:20:56 -0000 I'm speccing a budget RAID fileserver, and stumbled across some interesting prospects. This page describes a eight-channel ATA RAID card, the 7506-8: This page says there is support for other cards in this family, but doesn't explicitly cite the 7506-8, and cites some firmwar issues: The manpage for the driver itself seems prety broad: Can someone explicitly tie these references together? Is the 7506-8 going to cut it? Of course, I'm open to any anti-recommendations WRT this card, as well, so feel free to chuck me any feedback... -- Brian Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large