From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 14:17:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D94E16A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:17:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from thud.tbe.net (thud.tbe.net [209.123.109.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8DE43D1D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: by thud.tbe.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B0021C942E; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:24:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thud.tbe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27848DCFD4 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:24:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:24:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: 3Ware Escalade 5800 max drive size X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:17:27 -0000 Well, I'm thinking of picking up a couple of these controllers, since they're pretty cheap. It's going to be running under FreeBSD (4.9 or 5.x) at home, for mass storage for video clips and stuff lke that, so I'm not too concerned about overall speed. However, the biggest question I have, is how big of a drive will the controllers support? I've been searching for the past few days, and haven't been able to find anything about drive sizes and limitations. A part of the FAQ on their site says that all of their controllers support 48-bit addressing, but after reading the FAQ, it appeared that it was geared towards the 7000 and 8000 series controllers, so I took it with a grain of salt. Is anyone using the 5000-series with any drives larger than 120GB, or knows if they will support it (and if not, where does it start, i.e. do I need to go to the 6000 or 7000 series before it'll recognize a 160GB drive fully)? Thanks, -Gary Running Windows is kinda like playing blackjack: User stays on success, reboots on failure