Driver support for 3ware 8506-12 in i386?

[Scott Sipe]

Hi Peter,

I'm running a 8056 on i386, but the 4 port version (with 3 disks 
onboard). I ran it briefly on 5.2.1 and then on CURRENT from about 
three weeks ago. Server has only been in production for about two 
weeks, but it hasn't crashed yet (no problems other than an ACPI 
problem--have to disable ACPI--and have been afraid to cvsup lately 
because of instabilities discussed on current). No problems with the 
twe at all, it's been great.

Scott

On Jul 25, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Peter Losher wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Many of you saw my messages last month on getting a 3ware 8506-12 SATA
> RAID controller working under heavy I/O on 5.2.1/amd64, and despite the
> work of Paul Saab in getting me a version of the -CURRENT twe driver, 
> it
> still locks up under heavy I/O.
>
> So since this box is behind schedule, and I need to get this box 
> stable,
> I am likely to side-grade this box to 5.2.1/i386, with the 
> understanding
> that the twe driver as it stands now just isn't 64-bit compatible.  
> When
> 5.3-RELEASE is out and the twe driver is hopefully 64-bit clean, I can
> reconsider going back to amd64 on this box.
>
> Does anyone have a 8506 series (esp. a 8506-12) controller running 
> under
> 5.2.1/i386 in production?  I'd like to know before hand before I make
> the jump.
>
> Best Wishes - Peter
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