From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 18:16:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@www.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB96016A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:16:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D1043D31 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:16:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i88IHqnk026407; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:17:52 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i88IHp02026406; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:17:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:17:51 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: "Jason M. Leonard" Message-ID: <20040908181751.GB32204@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20040905123829.D51907@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <6.1.2.0.0.20040905214720.05a7d5b0@193.189.169.9> <20040908092352.T26965@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040908092352.T26965@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-amd64@www.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware (twe, twa) support for AMD64 in 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:16:14 -0000 --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:51:09AM -0400, Jason M. Leonard wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: >=20 > >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= =20 > >future. >=20 > Thanks. I do have several AMD64 boxes with 3ware 9500 cards. They're al= l=20 > running i386 right now, though, because I bought them based on the fact= =20 > that twa was in the AMD64 GENERIC in -CURRENT at the time. Silly me=20 > not to do my research; twa built fine in -CURRENT, newfs seemed OK,=20 > mounting the volume seemed OK, but anything after that resulted in a=20 > panic. So I read the threads cited in my previous email, smacked myself= =20 > on the head and installed FreeBSD/i386 on those machines. >=20 > But I still wanted a box running FreeBSD/AMD64, so I ordered an all-SCSI= =20 > box with an asr(4)-based SCSI card. Because this time I checked the=20 > 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= =20 > machine I found that asr(4) didn't really work after all. asr(4) is not 64-bit ready. :( I believe aac is. > Now I need to purchase new hardware again, so this time I thought I would= =20 > ask first instead of making another mistake. Since twa(4) seems to be=20 > working for you I'll take down one of the boxes currently running=20 > FreeBSD/i386, install 5.3/AMD64 on it and begin extenstive testing today. twa(4) is supposed to work. I think it's even been tested by 3ware. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBP0zPXY6L6fI4GtQRAoteAJ9KpeD4wyhG0+2RHlK+EJR5N8IeugCdGCOL zhU2kSQG1caNJILtEnM7DBs= =wXo1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD--