Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:30:47 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Jason Thomson'" <jason.thomson@mintel.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers Message-ID: <000801c4a033$08ec32d0$162a15ac@spud> In-Reply-To: <415058FA.1090709@mintel.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Thomson > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:38 AM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers > > > We have a one machine with a 9500S-4 controller in RAID 10 > configuration. > > Performance in RAID10 configuration is subjectively no > different to the > 7506-4 in RAID10. (Both cards seem excellent with similar disks - WD > 200GB / 8MB cache drives). We haven't done any systematic testing. > > AFAIK the real advantage for the 9000 series cards is for > RAID5 arrays. > > A few caveats: > > 1. The firmware is included in the driver. The driver will > update the > card's firmware if the driver has more recent firmware than the card. > The firmware that came with the 4-STABLE driver at the beginning of > August was quite old; we had to kldload a more recent driver from the > 3ware website in order to complete the install. > > 2. We haven't been able to get 3dm2 working on this machine. (But the > CLI does work). We haven't spent a huge amount of time on it yet - but > do want to get it working to remotely monitor the array / generate > alerts. I'm not surprised, the version for FreeBSD is a very poor port from a Linux version that uses Linux-style file placement and init scripts. It's sickening to read through. But then this is from the same people whose single "BSD guy" got confused when I asked what value for CPUTYPE was used when compiling the twe module and tw_cli software. Does anyone have a rewritten installer script and/or an rc.subr-style startup script for 3dm2?
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