Driver for 3ware 9690SA, FreeBSD 8

[Eirik Øverby]

Hi,

we use these in all our (I/O-sensitive) servers, and they perform very  
well. We've upgraded the firmware of all of them to the latest release  
(as of about 2 months ago), though I'm not sure if that was done from  
FreeBSD or in other systems prior to installation.

We use the 3dm package to manage the boards; it's available in ports  
or through pkg_add -r 3dm . It's a version of the web-based management  
tool from 3ware; however it's an old version, and I haven't been able  
to extract the current version from the installation package provided  
by 3ware (plus, it requires Java, but so does other software we use).

/Eirik

On 19. juli 2009, at 02.47, Maxim Khitrov wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This is the first time I'm setting up hardware raid under FreeBSD. The
> card is 3ware 9690SA (twa driver) and I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2.
>
> I'm a bit confused about the driver situation. The twa driver that
> comes with FreeBSD is at version 3.70.05.001 (listed during boot). I
> cannot find this version anywhere on the 3ware site. There is,
> however, a reference to 3.70.05.003 [1], which is from 9.5.1 code set
> for FreeBSD 7.x. Is there some disconnect between what 3ware releases
> for FreeBSD and what actually makes it into the source tree? If so, is
> it a better idea to use the driver that comes with FreeBSD 8 or
> download the latest source from 3ware and compile that myself (note
> that FreeBSD 8.x is not listed anywhere, so my guess is to use the 7.x
> version)?
>
> The reason I ask is because I'd like to update the firmware on the
> controller, but I have no idea what is the latest version that the
> current driver supports. For that matter, I don't know if the firmware
> that came with the card is supported, though it appears to be working
> for now. Basically, I'm just looking for advice on how to deal with
> drivers that are primarily maintained outside of the FreeBSD source
> tree.
>
> If anyone else is using the same controller, I'd also appreciate any
> advice on setting up the CLI (my guess is that I should use the
> sysutils/tw_cli port) and e-mail notifications for things like the
> loss of a drive.
>
> - Max
>
> [1] http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14847
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