From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 14:56:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f78.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0C537B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 14:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 4 May 2001 14:56:14 -0700 Received: from 32.100.79.41 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 04 May 2001 21:56:13 GMT X-Originating-IP: [32.100.79.41] From: "Charles Burns" To: freyes@inch.com, praxis@techpraxis.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade experience? Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 14:56:13 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 May 2001 21:56:14.0209 (UTC) FILETIME=[09B8F710:01C0D4E5] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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