Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card?

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brett Glass wrote:

> I've got a machine here that needs an OS reinstall. It's using a 3Ware
> (twe) RAID card. Does the driver for this card work properly under
> 4.9-RELEASE? 

Not sure if you ever got an answer to the affirmative, but I'm running
several personal servers on 4.9-RC and 4.9-RELEASE quite smoothly with the
twe driver.  ftp-master.FreeBSD.org is also running 4.9-PRERELEASE with
twe cards quite happily.  twe is pretty well supported, generally, and
widely used with FreeBSD by some pretty big consumers of FreeBSD.  I'm
using the 64xx line and haven't had a reason to try any of the newer cards
as yet.  Some illustrative dmesg output below.

One suggestion, however: make sure you're running with the latest firmware
available, especially for the 64xx line.  I've had problems with clean
recovery from drive failure using mirroring on some of the older firmware
revisions, which is apparently a "known problem" with those versions of
the firmware. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research

box1: (4.9-RC)
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 11 at device 19.0
on pci0
twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.02.28.053, BIOS BE6X 1.07.02.005
twed0: <Unit 2, TwinStor, Normal> on twe0
twed0: 76343MB (156351488 sectors)

box2: (4.9-PRERELEASE)
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xef80-0xef8f mem
0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff,0xfebff800-0xfebff80f irq 15 at device 3.0 on pci1
twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.056, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.046
twed0: <Unit 0, RAID5, Normal> on twe0
twed0: 468997MB (960506880 sectors)

box3: (4.9-RC)
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 9 at device 18.0
on pci0
twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.02.28.053, BIOS BE6X 1.07.02.005
twed0: <Unit 2, TwinStor, Normal> on twe0
twed0: 117245MB (240119680 sectors)