From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 6:17:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A6137B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:17:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail5.txucom.net (mail5.txucom.net [207.70.175.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0C8B43FB1 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: (qmail 23448 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2003 14:17:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO quartz.jimking.net) ([207.70.162.186]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.txucom.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Mar 2003 14:17:37 -0000 Received: from jimking.net (charcoal.ad.lgc.com [134.132.77.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by quartz.jimking.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2LEHVfb006564 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:17:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <3E7B1EFA.7040909@jimking.net> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:17:30 -0600 From: Jim King User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Elsner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware 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> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030321080935.01c11008@mail.servplex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message