3ware (twe, twa) support for AMD64 in 5.3?

Bob Willcox bob at immure.com
Thu Sep 9 07:49:06 PDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:17:51AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:51:09AM -0400, Jason M. Leonard wrote:
> > 
> > But I still wanted a box running FreeBSD/AMD64, so I ordered an all-SCSI 
> > box with an asr(4)-based SCSI card.  Because this time I checked the 
> > hardware release notes for AMD64 and asr(4) was listed.  Cool.
> >
> > Except, of course, when I tried to install FreeBSD/AMD64 on my new SCSI 
> > machine I found that asr(4) didn't really work after all.
> 
> asr(4) is not 64-bit ready. :(  I believe aac is.

FWIW, the amr driver (w/ an LSI 320-2 RAID ctlr) works fine on my AMD64
system running 5-current (from the May '04 time frame).

Bob

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