SV: state of ide raid

[Matt Douhan]

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Fran: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org]For Charles Sprickman

>-3Ware has a whole new series of cards.  The twe(4) manpage states that
>only 5xxx and 6xxx series cards are supported, but these are very hard to
>come by.  Is the manpage out of date, or are the newer 7xxx and 8xxx
>series cards now supported as well?


We use the 3ware 7500-8 on our STABLE NFS servers with great success

1:18pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > uname -a
FreeBSD rabarber.internal.hasta.se 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #2: Wed Jan
15 22:08:29 CET 2003
root at rabarber.internal.hasta.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RABARBER  i386


1:16pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > dmesg | grep 3ware
twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xd400-0xd40f mem
0xf5000000-0xf57fffff,0xf5800000-0xf580000f irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci0

1:17pm mdouhan @ [rabarber] ~ > df -H
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a  1057M    44M   949M     4%    /
/dev/twed0s1g  1049G   170G   816G    17%    /net/rabarber
/dev/twed0s1f    11G   1.4G   8.6G    14%    /usr
/dev/twed0s1e    11G   629M   9.3G     6%    /var

we runs it with 8 160GB maxtor drives and have had failures and successfully
rebuilt the array several times without dataloss.

rgds

Matt