how 'supported' are 3ware Escalade controllers?

[Brian Reichert]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:20:01AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> If you are putting together a new system, I would look at the SATA series 
> of their cards, the 8000.  I dont have any experience yet with their newer 
> generation 9000 cards and they use newer drivers so I dont know how well 
> tested they are. However, the older 7506-8 we are currently using in our 
> pop3 server has been working very well for us for the past year.

I wanted to make use of file snapshots in FreeBSD 5.x (aiming at
5.2.1 right now).

I'm reviewing <http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp>.  This
page implies that the 7000 and 8000 series is not supported, and
I'd gave to stick with 9000 series.

Is that info out of date?  I suppose I could call 3Ware, but it's
a holiday, and I'm assuming they're not open (but the FBSD community
is always there for me; right guys? ;)

> Lately we have been using Seagate Drives.  I would stay away from Maxtor as 
> I have seen reports of problems with those drives.

Noted...

> 
>         ---Mike 
> 

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