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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2001 21:49:15 -0400
From:      Mikel King <mikel@ocsinternet.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Ware Escalade experience?
Message-ID:  <3AF35C1B.4000003@ocsinternet.com>
References:  <F957le5ib0VTCUrqOsV000041be@hotmail.com>

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Charles Burns wrote:

> Would anybody on this list happen to have any experience with 3Ware's 
> Escalade IDE RAID (hardware) controllers on FreeBSD?
> I may end up setting up a high end file server (insofar as an 
> IDE-based system can be called "high-end") and want to use these 
> controllers due to the absurdly high cost of SCSI disks compared to IDE.
> Additionally, does anybody know if they can be combined (i.e. 2+ 
> controllers for a single partition)?
> This isn't a time-critical question so please don't make any sort of 
> significant effort to answer it if you don't know off the top of your 
> head. I'll find out eventually.
> 
> Initially I thought that the controller was unsupported by FreeBSD 
> (though I never really looked), but I just noticed that the driver had 
> been updated as noted in the 4.3 release notes.
> 
> Multiple thanks (probably 3 to 3.5)
> 
> Charles Burns
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Yes I have one set up and running r10 w/ 4 30g segates under 4.3r...very 
nice, and simple to setup...the only thing I'm even the slightest irked 
about is that I went throught the trouble of flashing it's bios to get 
r5 and well even though the thing sas that the flashing was a success 
when I went in to config the 6400 I still only had 0, 1, &10. I guess 
the next step is to install the 3dm and unplug a drive to see what 
happens...better to know before it goes into production...;)  If anyone 
has had any luck getting r5 to work on one of these I'd be curious to 
know...

cheers,
mikel


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