SV: Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card?

[Matt Douhan]

-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Fran: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org

<Have not played with these cards recently, but just FYI I have had much
<better success with them with Raid 1,0 than with Raid 5.
<
<At one point I also think I had a raid 10 setup (if memory serves me well)
<and that also did fairly well. Don't know if newer cards or newer versions
<of FreeBSD do better with Raid 5.
_


7:50pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > dmesg | grep -i 3ware
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xd400-0xd40f mem
0xf5000000-0xf57fffff,0xf5800000-0xf580000f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0

7:50pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > uname -a
FreeBSD rabarber.internal.hasta.se 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #2: Wed Jan
15 22:08:29 CET 2003
root at rabarber.internal.hasta.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RABARBER  i386

7:51pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > df -h
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a  1008M    42M   905M     4%    /
/dev/twed0s1g   977G   268G   650G    29%    /net/rabarber
/dev/twed0s1f   9.8G   1.3G   8.0G    14%    /usr
/dev/twed0s1e   9.8G   1.4G   7.9G    15%    /var
procfs          4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
7:51pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ >

ID 0  3ware 3W-7850 disk controller
Array Unit 0  Striped with Parity 64K (RAID 5)  1068.68 GB   OK


This works great for us on STABLE, we have crashed disks, rebuilt arrays,
added drives and so on and it have never failed us so far.

My experience is very good with these cards

rgds

Matt