Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:17:20 -0700 From: "Vinod Kashyap" <vkashyap@amcc.com> To: mike <mike@mike2k.com>, "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [freebsd-amd64] Re: [freebsd-amd64] Possible 3ware 8506-12SATA Controller issues... Message-ID: <HZQP0X00.H1F@hadar.amcc.com>
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> > > According to 3ware this is a dangerous setup =) > > I was able to get it to recognize the 8506 as a 7xxx, but he said it > wasn't guaranteed to work at all. Also I liked using the 3dm > and cli tools > so I could schedule the integrity and media checks and such. > It's NOT "dangerous"! :-) The driver doesn't make a distinction between 7xxx and 8xxx controllers, and sees them all as "7000 series" controllers. Since this was apparently cause of confusion, I have reverted the driver to only say "3ware Storage Controller" in the later versions. There's only one driver for 7xxx and 8xxx (also 6xxx for that matter). > However, I didn't spend $4500-5000 to have a half-ass compatible box. > > There was the software compatibility issue as well as the > motherboard/riser card possibility as well. > > Hoever, I was told going the 9500 route, they'd support it; > and I wanted > to be doing the right thing here. > > > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, James R. Van Artsalen wrote: > > > Peter Losher wrote: > > > > >>You might want to upgrade to twe in -CURRENT, and see if that > > >>makes a difference. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >Tried compiling a 5.2.1 kernel w/ the twe driver plopped > from -CURRENT > > >cvsup'ed 30 minutes ago, and it didn't go to well: > > > > > > > > > > 5.2.1-release w/8506-8 seems to work for me on AMD64 with 8 > GB of RAM in > > a Tyan S2885 with two Opteron 248 CPUs in a slot jumpered > to 64/66 PCI > > rather than PCI-X. > > > > I'm not trying to use any twe-specific monitoring tools and haven't > > tested to see if the twe driver notices disk errors. > > > > I believe that the driver does not handle more than 4 GB of RAM and > > requires bounce-buffers. > > > > Testing consisted of running "make buildworld" in a loop > with a kernel > > building in a loop at the same; see if it's still running > after a week > > and fsck is clean. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >home | help
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