Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:20:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031130211928.74465A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031130191600.03653c80@localhost>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:36 PM 11/30/2003, Robert Watson wrote: > > >Not sure if you ever got an answer to the affirmative, but I'm running > >several personal servers on 4.9-RC and 4.9-RELEASE quite smoothly with the > >twe driver. > > I got some encouraging reports, and so tried it. The machine, which has > an Escalade 6800, does seem to be running OK. I had to upgrade it to the > latest firmware, as you mentioned -- not only to make it stable but to > get it to recognize large hard drives and enable the use of a "hot > spare." For some reason, 3Ware requires you to upgrade twice -- once to > an intermediate version and then to the latest -- if you still have the > original firmware on the board, which this one did. Yeah, I completely forgot about that -- only one of my systems has "large hard disks" requiring the second firmware upgrade, but indeed, that is another reason to make sure the firmware is really up-to-date. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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