3ware Esclade 7006-2

[Justin England]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederic Andres" <sparrox at free.fr>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Cc: "Justin England" <Justin at rapidcity.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: 3ware Esclade 7006-2


> Hi,
>
>> My question is mainly on the driver though.  Which should I use?
>> The twe driver seems to be working as far as I have tested, but do
>> I need the driver downloaded from 3ware to get 3dm2 and the CLI to
>> work?  If so, what is the best way to install the driver as I am
>> using this array as the boot disk?
>
> I have the same 3ware controller running on FreeBSD 5.2/5.2.1 and it
> works very well.
>
> I use the default drivers (twe) during the installation of FreeBSD.
>
> Concerning the admin tools, I installed the port
> /usr/ports/sysutils/3dm which provides an alert daemon and a web
> interface to check hardward.
> In addition, I downloaded the command line tool from 3ware website :
> the cli program, version 7.7.1 for FreeBSD 4.8 Beta. (it works on
> FreeBSD 5.2.x serie and should work on 5.3.x).
>

I am using the built-in twe driver and everything appears to be working 
great.  I also downloaded the CLI util from the 3ware site, and after a bit 
or experimenting with it, I have that working fine as well.

As for the 3dm util, when attempting to install from ports, this is what I 
get:

===>  3dm-1.10.0.011_1,1 This port is obsolete and should not be used. 
Please visit the 3ware website (www.3ware.com) for a newer version of the 
3dm utility.

Well, I downloaded the latest 3dm util, but am unsuccessful it getting it to 
work.  It launches without errors, but when attempting to connect to it's 
web interface, nothing happens.  Telnet'ing directly to it's port (888 by 
default) and sending it a GET request produces no output, so I am assuming 
that it is not compatible with the 5.3 twe driver, although the CLI 
interface is.

Anybody been able to get the 3dm2 web interface, downloaded from 3ware.com, 
working with the twe driver that comes with 5.3-RELEASE?

Thanks,

Justin