5.x, 3ware 7506-8, twe4, raid5

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Tue Jul 26 02:14:35 GMT 2005


On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:29:46 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>I am looking at getting a 3ware 7506-8 for a FreeBSD 5.4 box. I have  
>looked at the hardware support, finding the twe4 driver. How would  
>people rate this card under FreeBSD? I am currently using an Adaptec  
>ATA-100 RAID 2400A which only support 4 drives.
>
>
>I would like to run an 8 drive RAID5 with the 7506-8.
>

Yes, it works well for me.  I use it for one of my offsite backup
servers. Its actually a 7810, but works the same.  I have had great
luck with the 3ware products over the years under FreeBSD and LINUX.

	---Mike
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