official 3ware support ?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Sun Dec 28 21:01:01 PST 2003


At 01:55 PM 24/12/2003, Vinod Kashyap wrote:

>Yes, 3ware now supports FreeBSD!
>
>The driver you find on the 3ware website has been
>extensively tested on 4.8, and not yet on 4.9.

Hi,
         I was just playing around with your beta driver on 4.9 
STABLE.   Am I safe to assume that if I dont have PAE enabled and have <=2G 
of RAM installed, the driver should work ?  Also, will there be an updated 
3dmd ?

Thanks for officially supporting FreeBSD!

         ---Mike



>The changes in this driver should soon make their
>way into RELENG_4.  They are already checked into HEAD.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Vinod.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike at sentex.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:48 AM
>To: stable at freebsd.org
>Cc: ps at freebsd.org
>Subject: official 3ware support ?
>
>
>
>While looking for firmware updates on the 3ware site, I notice they now
>have FreeBSD drivers available for download marked as "beta"
>
>The readme with the drivers download says,
>
>"This directory contains the 3ware driver (twe.ko) for 7000 series
>storage controllers, and the corresponding source code.  The latest
>source code can be downloaded from the freebsd kernel tree, by running
>cvsup.
>The source code can be found at:
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/modules/twe
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/twe
>"
>
>However, what is in RELENG_4 differs from what is downloaded from the 3ware
>site.
>
>Also, its marked 4.8. Will it work with 4.9 which has all the PAE changes
>in it?
>
>         ---Mike
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