official 3ware support ?

[Barry Pederson]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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 ?

I was wondering about 3dmd support too, especially on FreeBSD 5.x.

The last time I tried it, on a 5.1-Release box, you had to apply a 
binary patch to make it work, as described in this old message from the 
freebsd-current list.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1035474+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030601.freebsd-current

It's kind of an ugly process to have to go through.

	Barry