Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:39:09 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: "Jason M. Leonard" <fuzz@ldc.upenn.edu> Cc: freebsd-amd64@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware (twe, twa) support for AMD64 in 5.3? Message-ID: <20040908143909.GA42620@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20040908092352.T26965@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> References: <20040905123829.D51907@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <6.1.2.0.0.20040905214720.05a7d5b0@193.189.169.9> <20040908092352.T26965@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:51:09AM -0400, Jason M. Leonard wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: > > >At 18:39 5.9.2004, Jason M. Leonard wrote: > >>1. Are the 3ware drivers ready for production on AMD64? > > > >so far twa seem to work OK on 5.3beta. Will test it more extensively in > >future. > > Thanks. I do have several AMD64 boxes with 3ware 9500 cards. They're all > running i386 right now, though, because I bought them based on the fact > that twa was in the AMD64 GENERIC in -CURRENT at the time. Silly me > not to do my research; twa built fine in -CURRENT, newfs seemed OK, > mounting the volume seemed OK, but anything after that resulted in a > panic. So I read the threads cited in my previous email, smacked myself > on the head and installed FreeBSD/i386 on those machines. It has also been my experience that 9500s didn't work on 5.2-CURRENT from july but were ok with 4.10 (obviously i386). > Now I need to purchase new hardware again, so this time I thought I would > ask first instead of making another mistake. Since twa(4) seems to be > working for you I'll take down one of the boxes currently running > FreeBSD/i386, install 5.3/AMD64 on it and begin extenstive testing today. I just put 5.3-BETA3 on the same type of machine (bi-opteron, 6x Gb Ethernet) and the RAID system now seems to work reliably. Additionally FreeBSD was the only OS I could install and use in 64-bit mode, but this is another story... -- Francois Tigeot
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