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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2001 14:56:13 -0700
From:      "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
To:        freyes@inch.com, praxis@techpraxis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Ware Escalade experience?
Message-ID:  <F78yDd3OJXsNQptgFrY00005698@hotmail.com>

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> >> Would anybody on this list happen to have any experience with 3Ware's
> >> Escalade IDE RAID (hardware) controllers on FreeBSD?
> >I have successfully used them on a clients' file server recently. They 
>work
> >like a charm.
>
>A few comments on 3Ware controllers:
>-There was a recent advisory from 3ware about Raid 5. If you use
>their Raid 5 you can loose data.
>-I highly recommend you flash your controller to the latest bios
>-Raid 1 and 10 have been the most trouble free for me. Have had
>some problems with Raid 0 which a bios upgrade seem to have
>fixed.

That's exactly the kind of info that I was looking for. Many thanks, I will 
certainly look at any advisories. Using the latest BIOS goes without saying, 
but  thanks for mentioning it regardless. :-)
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