how 'supported' are 3ware Escalade controllers?

[Brian Reichert]

I'm speccing a budget RAID fileserver, and stumbled across some
interesting prospects.

This page describes a eight-channel ATA RAID card, the 7506-8:

  <http://www.3ware.com/products/parallel_ata.asp>

This page says there is support for other cards in this family, but
doesn't explicitly cite the 7506-8, and cites some firmwar issues:

  <http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/#3ware>

The manpage for the driver itself seems prety broad:

  <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=twe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2.1-RELEASE>

Can someone explicitly tie these references together?  Is the 7506-8
going to cut it?

Of course, I'm open to any anti-recommendations WRT this card, as
well, so feel free to chuck me any feedback...

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