Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:12:10 -0400 From: clarence <cmills@borderware.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware raid Message-ID: <417EBDAA.3070704@borderware.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20041026165755.03ab35f0@64.7.153.2> References: <417E6F2A.9020508@borderware.com> <1127.209.152.53.188.1098822627.squirrel@209.152.53.188> <6.1.2.0.0.20041026165755.03ab35f0@64.7.153.2>
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Thank you all for your comments. I have used Promise controllers in the past TX4000 without incidence, so I assumed this SX6000 would work flawlessly. You guys have convinced me that 3ware is the way to go. Thank you for your quick responses Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:30 PM 26/10/2004, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> > Hello >> > >> > I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware >> > 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I was previously using a Promise >> > controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card. >> >> This is something of a FAQ. >> >> There's a long list of people using 3ware 6/7/8xxx series cards in >> FreeBSD >> 4.x boxes with great success. AFAIK that extends to 5.x as well. > > > Yes, I am one who always seems to pipe up. I use this very card > specifically on a busy pop3/imap server. The mail spool is made up of > 4 drives in RAID10 and 2 other ports are used for the base OS in > RAID1. Its been in service in this config for over a year without issue. > > When it comes time to replace bad drives, all has worked as expected > for us. We dont use hot swap trays (dont really trust the electrical > design of many of them), so we do it while powered down. Literally, > shutdown, pull the bad drive, put in the new, go into the BIOS (or you > can use the cmd line tools), add the new drive to the RAID set, exit > out and let it boot and thats it. The controller rebuilds in the > background and notifies you when done. > > There were at some point a bad batch of 7000 series cards that needed > to be RMA'd (perhaps 2+ yrs ago now ?). But other than that one time > hardware issue, they work great on all the platforms we have (i386 on > FreeBSD, Linux, Win2k). > > We also use most of the other cards, except for the 9xxx series which > we have no experience with yet. > > ---Mike > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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