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. :-) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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