From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 18:39:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03D337B423 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Received: from ocsinternet.com (ppp-002.ocsny.com [204.107.76.29]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10341 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 21:38:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AF35C1B.4000003@ocsinternet.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:49:15 -0400 From: Mikel King User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade experience? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message