From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue May 22 11:39:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from siamese.engr.3ware.com (mail.3ware.com [209.213.222.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC7037B43C; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdchung@3WARE.com) Received: by siamese with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:39:43 -0700 Message-ID: <53B208BD9A7FD311881A009027B6BBFB644989@siamese> From: Jeffrey Chung To: 'Mike Smith' , Reverend K Kanno Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 3ware Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:39:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0E2EE.8CA56FC0" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0E2EE.8CA56FC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Disclaimer: I'm from 3ware. We did have a bug in which the adapter could lose an IO. However, to our knowledge, these bugs have been resolved -- the firmware upgrade is on our website. I have the box (which Mike is referring to) -- and after upgrading the firmware, I haven't spotted the bug yet... but I am awaiting much more soak time before issuing the clean bill of health. Jeffrey -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:42 AM To: Reverend K Kanno Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware > Does any anybosy have any good/bad storis of the 3ware Escalade 6x00 IDE raid > controllers under FreeBSD? Lots of success stories; Yahoo! are deploying hundreds of them, for example. I can think of only two outstanding not-success stories; one chap running one in a fast K7 system that was having some unexplained but possibly timing-related issues, and one very difficult to reproduce bug which may be the result of the adapter losing a command, which I think that 3ware have now resolved (waiting on test results back from them). Hope this helps; I can definitely recommend these controllers. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0E2EE.8CA56FC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: 3ware

Disclaimer: I'm from 3ware.

We did have a bug in which the adapter could lose an = IO.  However, to our knowledge, these bugs have been resolved -- = the firmware upgrade is on our website.

I have the box (which Mike is referring to) -- and = after upgrading the firmware, I haven't spotted the bug yet... but I am = awaiting much more soak time before issuing the clean bill of = health.

Jeffrey

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org]=
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:42 AM
To: Reverend K Kanno
Cc: scsi@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 3ware


> Does any anybosy have any good/bad storis of the = 3ware Escalade 6x00 IDE raid
> controllers under FreeBSD?

Lots of success stories; Yahoo! are deploying = hundreds of them, for
example.

I can think of only two outstanding not-success = stories; one chap running
one in a fast K7 system that was having some = unexplained but possibly
timing-related issues, and one very difficult to = reproduce bug which may
be the result of the adapter losing a command, which = I think that 3ware
have now resolved (waiting on test results back from = them).

Hope this helps; I can definitely recommend these = controllers.

--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone = who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But = not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and = relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. = Fritz Todt]
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