From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 02:14:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5868616A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:14:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0398843D46 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:14:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j6Q2EU98015785; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:14:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Sean Hafeez Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:14:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5124A2BF-BD43-434F-9B3A-176CF94DDDD1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5124A2BF-BD43-434F-9B3A-176CF94DDDD1@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 205.211.164.50 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x, 3ware 7506-8, twe4, raid5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:14:35 -0000 On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:29:46 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I am looking at getting a 3ware 7506-8 for a FreeBSD 5.4 box. I have =20 >looked at the hardware support, finding the twe4 driver. How would =20 >people rate this card under FreeBSD? I am currently using an Adaptec =20 >ATA-100 RAID 2400A which only support 4 drives. > > >I would like to run an 8 drive RAID5 with the 7506-8. > Yes, it works well for me. I use it for one of my offsite backup servers. Its actually a 7810, but works the same. I have had great luck with the 3ware products over the years under FreeBSD and LINUX. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)