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Subject: Re: Support for 3ware Escalade 8500 Series
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On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 19:06 US/Mountain, Eivind Hestnes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any experience running freebsd 4.7/4.8/5.1 with a 
> 3ware
> Escalade 8500 S-ATA controller.
>
>

It is not listed in the 5.1 compatibility list, only up to the 7500.  
However, the controlling chipset is the same as the 7500 according to 
the Escalade website, from what I remember (I was researching this a 
week or two ago), so I bet it would work.  But I have no experience or 
exact knowledge that it does.

Chad