state of ide raid

[Glenn Johnson]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:19:00AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While shopping for another 3Ware card, I found that this market has
> gotten much larger since I bought my 6500.  So I started looking at
> the various cards while browsing the hardware notes for FreeBSD 4.8
> and 5.1.
>
> So I'm wondering if anyone can provide some insight here.
>
> -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  Is the manpage out of date, or are the newer 7xxx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?

I am using a 3Ware 7500-8 with FreeBSD-5.1.  I am currently using it in
RAID-5 mode and that works well.  However, it did not work at all with
RAID-10.  Initially it worked but it could not rebuild the array.  A
firmware upgrade fixed that but then initialization would fail.  Your
mileage may vary and hopefully 3Ware will start supporting FreeBSD.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
USDA, ARS, SRRC			 Phone: (504) 286-4252
New Orleans, LA 70124		e-mail: gjohnson at srrc.ars.usda.gov