Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:51:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jason M. Leonard" <fuzz@ldc.upenn.edu> To: Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar@over.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@lists.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware (twe, twa) support for AMD64 in 5.3? Message-ID: <20040908092352.T26965@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20040905214720.05a7d5b0@193.189.169.9> References: <20040905123829.D51907@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <6.1.2.0.0.20040905214720.05a7d5b0@193.189.169.9>
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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. 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. :Fuzz > > >> 2. Will the CLI utilities run on AMD64? > > Hmm, i can check that one of these days. > > > Tomaz > >
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