Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:35:51 -0600 From: Jim King <jim@jimking.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware Message-ID: <3E805B37.4000502@jimking.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030325073233.080a1aa0@192.168.0.12> References: <1ddv7v840qhcq7j1oekdcov37886hs642h@4ax.com> <200303211911260025.003E1BB2@sentry.24cl.com> <1048360633.3e7cb6b92be8a@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> <z3CqHD.A.OuV.qTbf-@coal.sentex.ca> <1ddv7v840qhcq7j1oekdcov37886hs642h@4ax.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030325073233.080a1aa0@192.168.0.12>
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Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 09:42 PM 3/24/2003 -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > >> Too bad about 3ware, this is news to me too that it's poorly supported >> under *BSD. > > > My point is that the card is not supported at all by 3ware, but the > driver is top notch in terms of speed and reliability-- just like many > devices in FreeBSD which have zero support from the vendor. Think > fxp, think ahc, xl, rl, ata, wi, an etc. However, the lack of a current version of the management daemon makes the 3Ware card weak in terms of fault tolerance on FreeBSD - certain hardware problems can't be fixed from FreeBSD's version of the management daemon, but they can be fixed with the Linux and Windows versions. Also, the lack of support for the current firmware on the 7000 series cards makes me hesitant to use those cards with FreeBSD. I agree that the driver is a quality piece of work, but that's not much comfort when you're trying to rebuild a degraded array and the only way to do it is to install another OS. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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