Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:40:35 -0400 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how 'supported' are 3ware Escalade controllers? Message-ID: <20040929224035.GL11445@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040901052054.GV4846@numachi.com> References: <20040901052054.GV4846@numachi.com>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:20:54AM +0000, Brian Reichert wrote:
> I'm speccing a budget RAID fileserver, and stumbled across some
> interesting prospects.
>
[snip]
> Can someone explicitly tie these references together? Is the 7506-8
> going to cut it?
So - I took the plunge, and have sucessfully spun up a 7506-8 under
FreeBSD 5.2.1.
# df /dev/twed0s1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1 1324492798 444478178 774055198 36% /backups
Eight drives under RAID5, hurray.
I'm now exploring the misc management tools, with middling success,
but I'd love some feedback on what other people have successfully
gotten to fly:
- I've spun up 3dm, but, for the life of me, can't get it to send
me email. No errors, just silently doesn't do it. :/
- I've installed the smartmontools-5.22_1 package, but get this
sort of diagnostic:
# smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twe0
smartctl version 5.22 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Smartctl open device: /dev/twe0 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
# smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/da0
smartctl version 5.22 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
smartmontools 5.22 does not currentlly support TWE devices (3ware Escalade)
Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one
or more '-T permissive' options.
This seems rather contrary to the docs in the package...
- This very thread I've replied to implies a 3dm2 out there, but I
could find no reference on 3ware's site. Was this something I imagined?
I suppose calling 3ware's support would be a next step for me...
--
Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
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