Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:36:54 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031130173009.66375f-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200311200036.RAA18628@lariat.org>
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > I've got a machine here that needs an OS reinstall. It's using a 3Ware > (twe) RAID card. Does the driver for this card work properly under > 4.9-RELEASE? Not sure if you ever got an answer to the affirmative, but I'm running several personal servers on 4.9-RC and 4.9-RELEASE quite smoothly with the twe driver. ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is also running 4.9-PRERELEASE with twe cards quite happily. twe is pretty well supported, generally, and widely used with FreeBSD by some pretty big consumers of FreeBSD. I'm using the 64xx line and haven't had a reason to try any of the newer cards as yet. Some illustrative dmesg output below. One suggestion, however: make sure you're running with the latest firmware available, especially for the 64xx line. I've had problems with clean recovery from drive failure using mirroring on some of the older firmware revisions, which is apparently a "known problem" with those versions of the firmware. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research box1: (4.9-RC) twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.02.28.053, BIOS BE6X 1.07.02.005 twed0: <Unit 2, TwinStor, Normal> on twe0 twed0: 76343MB (156351488 sectors) box2: (4.9-PRERELEASE) twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xef80-0xef8f mem 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff,0xfebff800-0xfebff80f irq 15 at device 3.0 on pci1 twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.056, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.046 twed0: <Unit 0, RAID5, Normal> on twe0 twed0: 468997MB (960506880 sectors) box3: (4.9-RC) twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0 twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.02.28.053, BIOS BE6X 1.07.02.005 twed0: <Unit 2, TwinStor, Normal> on twe0 twed0: 117245MB (240119680 sectors)
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