Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:44:40 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: how 'supported' are 3ware Escalade controllers? Message-ID: <20040906174440.GO66117@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20040906163249.GF261@numachi.com> References: <20040901052054.GV4846@numachi.com> <6.1.2.0.0.20040901090639.08d11060@64.7.153.2> <20040906163249.GF261@numachi.com>
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--+bDoS+V4AJZnUgoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:32:49PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:20:01AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > If you are putting together a new system, I would look at the SATA seri= es=20 > > of their cards, the 8000. I dont have any experience yet with their ne= wer=20 > > generation 9000 cards and they use newer drivers so I dont know how wel= l=20 > > tested they are. However, the older 7506-8 we are currently using in ou= r=20 > > pop3 server has been working very well for us for the past year. >=20 > I wanted to make use of file snapshots in FreeBSD 5.x (aiming at > 5.2.1 right now). >=20 > I'm reviewing <http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp>. This > page implies that the 7000 and 8000 series is not supported, and > I'd gave to stick with 9000 series. >=20 > Is that info out of date? I suppose I could call 3Ware, but it's > a holiday, and I'm assuming they're not open (but the FBSD community > is always there for me; right guys? ;) >=20 Well, they do list FreeBSD under both, 7000/8000 and 9000 (even though 5.x is not explicitly mentioned). But to answer your question, the 7000/8000 series is supported by the twe driver (a list of supported hardware is in the manpage). - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --+bDoS+V4AJZnUgoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBPKIIbHYXjKDtmC0RAs9QAJ9Xqy8o/oPhigtd9bNh1gryb5PYxACfToPh 64b+CzClYwp6JKgQ8HM1HNs= =rw1Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+bDoS+V4AJZnUgoC--
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