From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 11:25:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE5F37B415 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from symbion.srrc.usda.gov (symbion.srrc.usda.gov [199.133.86.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E431D43F75 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov) Received: from node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by symbion.srrc.usda.gov (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5DIPkRM018729; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:25:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov) Received: (from glenn@localhost)h5DIPjrn018640; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:25:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:25:44 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson To: Charles Sprickman Message-ID: <20030613182544.GA53452@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> References: <20030613041037.C89958@shell.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030613041037.C89958@shell.inch.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: state of ide raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:25:53 -0000 On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:19:00AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hello, > > While shopping for another 3Ware card, I found that this market has > gotten much larger since I bought my 6500. So I started looking at > the various cards while browsing the hardware notes for FreeBSD 4.8 > and 5.1. > > So I'm wondering if anyone can provide some insight here. > > -3Ware has a whole new series of cards. The twe(4) manpage states > that only 5xxx and 6xxx series cards are supported, but these are very > hard to come by. Is the manpage out of date, or are the newer 7xxx > and 8xxx series cards now supported as well? I am using a 3Ware 7500-8 with FreeBSD-5.1. I am currently using it in RAID-5 mode and that works well. However, it did not work at all with RAID-10. Initially it worked but it could not rebuild the array. A firmware upgrade fixed that but then initialization would fail. Your mileage may vary and hopefully 3Ware will start supporting FreeBSD. -- Glenn Johnson USDA, ARS, SRRC Phone: (504) 286-4252 New Orleans, LA 70124 e-mail: gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov