Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:17:30 -0600 From: Jim King <jim@jimking.net> To: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware Message-ID: <3E7B1EFA.7040909@jimking.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030321080935.01c11008@mail.servplex.com> References: <1048212617.3e7a748940bbb@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <200303181635.h2IGZN723591@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> <1048212617.3e7a748940bbb@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <5.2.0.9.2.20030321080935.01c11008@mail.servplex.com>
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But the version of 3dmd for FreeBSD is not a current version and lacks
some features found in 3dmd for Linux and Windows. My situation was
that I needed one of the new features in order to rebuild a RAID1 mirror
("ignore errors when rebuilding"; my "good" drive had a bad sector out
in unused space). I won't be installing anymore FreeBSD/3Ware setups.
Jim
Peter Elsner wrote:
> I've been using the 3Ware cards for 2 years on FreeBSD... We had a
> drive go south a few weeks ago, and
> the 3dmd (3Ware daemon) reported the problem to me. I had a local
> hardware tech go out and
> replace the drive, boot up the system, and then over the net, I
> rebuilt the array. It was back up and
> running after about 20 minutes.
>
> I did contact 3Ware tech support when this first happened, to make
> sure that I was following the
> steps of rebuilding the array correctly. They responded within 24
> hours, and told me yes, I was doing
> this correctly. And I did mention to them it was FreeBSD. At no
> time, did they ever mention
> that they didn't support FreeBSD. And that 3Ware daemon works
> great... Have it running on
> all of my systems all over the country.
>
> Peter
>
>
> At 08:22 PM 3/20/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>> Bruce Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> I openned a case with 3ware tech support and they responded:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> We do not support FreeBSD plus the
>>>> current driver for FreeBSD has not been
>>>> updated for some time to keep up with
>>>> firmware changes.
>>>> Please try linux instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> So I guess I will try that and see what happens.
>>>
>>
>> I got NO response from 3Ware when I asked them about a newer version
>> of their management daemon for FreeBSD. I consider the 3Ware cards
>> to be essentially unsupported on FreeBSD.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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