Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:17:51 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> 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: <20040908181751.GB32204@odin.ac.hmc.edu> 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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. > > But I still wanted a box running FreeBSD/AMD64, so I ordered an all-SCSI > box with an asr(4)-based SCSI card. Because this time I checked the > hardware release notes for AMD64 and asr(4) was listed. Cool. > > Except, of course, when I tried to install FreeBSD/AMD64 on my new SCSI > machine I found that asr(4) didn't really work after all. asr(4) is not 64-bit ready. :( I believe aac is. > 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. twa(4) is supposed to work. I think it's even been tested by 3ware. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBP0zPXY6L6fI4GtQRAoteAJ9KpeD4wyhG0+2RHlK+EJR5N8IeugCdGCOL zhU2kSQG1caNJILtEnM7DBs= =wXo1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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