3ware confusion

[mathias at haas.se]

Hi Florian!

I was a bit confused as well, I recently bought a 8506 and after I
installed FreeBSD 5.2 I discovered that there were beta drivers for 4.8.
But as I remember it, it's the same drivers that are included in 5.2.
I have had some strange problems (none critical, yet) with my 3ware
controller under 5.2, but I haven't tried it under 4.x, so I can't tell if
there's a difference.

/mathias

> Hi,
>
> my new server has an 3ware 7006-2 Raid Controller and should become my
> production server for webhosting.
>
> I'm now a little bit confused which release of FreeBSD I should use.
> It's a dual PIII so I'm tempted to use 5.2 and I thought for the
> controller I also need 5.x because of the improved twe driver. But now
> there is also the beta-driver from 3ware for 4.8 available, so that's
> another possibilty. Do I need other tools like 3dm?
>
> Can somebody recommend which release I should use (besides from 5.2 not
> beeing STABLE yet)?
>
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Florian
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