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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Experiences with 3Ware 9500-Series and 5.2 CURRENT?
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> i just sold my Promsie FastTrak S150 SX4 due to missing Raid 5 support of ataraid. I really wanted to get it running with FreeBSD 5.2 CURRENT, but the wait was too long :(
> I thank Soeren Schmidt for his work and patience.
>
> Now I know want to buy a 3Ware 9500S-4LP.
>
> My desired configuration will be a Dual-Athlon on a Asus A7M266-D with 4x 120gb, 7200 rpm, 8mb cache (western digital).
>
>  - Does anybody use such a controller and in what configuration?

Its a pretty new controller; I haven't heard of anyone using it yet.

>  - How stable is the current twa?

It was just committed, so you'd be in the "early adopter" phase :)

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