3ware raid

[clarence]

Thank you all for your comments. I have used Promise controllers in the 
past TX4000 without incidence, so I assumed this SX6000 would work 
flawlessly.

You guys have convinced me that 3ware is the way to go.

Thank you for your quick responses


Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 04:30 PM 26/10/2004, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware
>> > 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I  was previously using a Promise
>> > controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card.
>>
>> This is something of a FAQ.
>>
>> There's a long list of people using 3ware 6/7/8xxx series cards in 
>> FreeBSD
>> 4.x boxes with great success.  AFAIK that extends to 5.x as well.
>
>
> Yes, I am one who always seems to pipe up.  I use this very card 
> specifically on a busy pop3/imap server.  The mail spool is made up of 
> 4 drives in RAID10 and 2 other ports are used for the base OS in 
> RAID1.  Its been in service in this config for over a year without issue.
>
> When it comes time to replace bad drives, all has worked as expected 
> for us.  We dont use hot swap trays (dont really trust the electrical 
> design of many of them), so we do it while powered down.  Literally, 
> shutdown, pull the bad drive, put in the new, go into the BIOS (or you 
> can use the cmd line tools), add the new drive to the RAID set, exit 
> out and let it boot and thats it.  The controller rebuilds in the 
> background and notifies you when done.
>
> There were at some point a bad batch of 7000 series cards that needed 
> to be RMA'd (perhaps 2+ yrs ago now ?).  But other than that one time 
> hardware issue, they work great on all the platforms we have (i386 on 
> FreeBSD, Linux, Win2k).
>
> We also use most of the other cards, except for the 9xxx series which 
> we have no experience with yet.
>
>         ---Mike
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