Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:08:07 -0700 (PDT) From: mike <mike@mike2k.com> To: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> Cc: Vinod Kashyap <vkashyap@amcc.com> Subject: Re: [freebsd-amd64] Re: [freebsd-amd64] Possible 3ware 8506-12SATA Controller issues... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406221905310.11969@sql01.internal.mikehost.net> In-Reply-To: <40D8E40D.5090805@jrv.org> References: <HZQJFJ01.524@hadar.amcc.com> <200406221811.47868.Peter_Losher@isc.org> <40D8E40D.5090805@jrv.org>
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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. 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" >
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