Hardware RAID support? Which controller best to use?

[Oliver Lehmann]

Olaf Greve wrote:

> Judging from the pictures of the 9500S it has a 
> 64-bits PCI slot, but it looks like it might be compatible with the 
> 32-bits slots as well

They are working in a 32Bit slot without problems. I've running a
9500S-4LP in a 32bit slot and it works like a charm with a 4*250GB
RAID-5+BBU;)

3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version: 3.60.00.017
twa0: <3ware 9000 series Storage Controller> port 0x3400-0x34ff mem 0xf4102800-0xf41028ff,0xf4800000-0xf4ffffff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0
twa0: [FAST]
twa0: DEBUG: (0x04: 0x0054): Charge termination voltage is at high level: 0x0
twa0: INFO: (0x15: 0x1300): Controller details:: 4 ports, Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.005, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052

da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <AMCC 9500S-4LP  DISK 2.08> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
da0: 100.000MB/s transfers
da0: 715224MB (1464778752 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 91178C)


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