twe on 4.10 question

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:19 AM 22/10/2004, Sergey Shyman wrote:
>Does anybody use the following RAID controller on 4.10:
>3ware Escalade 7006-2 IDE Raid controller



Yes, we have numerous boxes deployed with various 3ware cards including 
that one.  All our critical servers running FreeBSD, Linux and Win32 use 
these cards.


>Does it have any problems with stability/performance?

It works VERY well for us in both respects on RELENG_4 and RELENG_5.



>It will be used in RAID1 (2 IDE drives) configuration on 4.10-RELEASE 
>system (of course with latest patches).
One note, the download info for their web management program 
(http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp) implies its only available for 
the 8000 series card which is false, as it is in fact designed to work with 
the 7xxx and 8xxx cards.

Although I havent run into disk compatibility issues, some people have 
issues with particular firmwares on certain Maxtor drives.  I run mostly 
with Segate drives right now, but in the past have run Maxtor, quantum and 
Fujitsu, all without problems. YMMV


         ---Mike