Does 4.9-RELEASE work with 3Ware RAID card?
Holger Kipp
Holger.Kipp at alogis.com
Thu Nov 20 06:22:41 PST 2003
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:59:21PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 05:48 PM 11/19/2003, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>
> >I think you have the best equipment to test it with :-)
>
> So, I'd have to be the guinea pig, eh?
twe0 at pci1:5:0: class=0x010400 card=0x100113c1 chip=0x100113c1 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = '3ware Inc.'
device = '7000 series ATA-100 Storage Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
twe1 at pci1:6:0: class=0x010400 card=0x100113c1 chip=0x100113c1 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = '3ware Inc.'
device = '7000 series ATA-100 Storage Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
works without problems here. well, we don't use the raid-5 any more
due to some 'interesting' behaviour we encountered here once, though.
FreeBSD verleihnix.int1.b.intern 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #19: Fri Oct 24 14:23:51
CEST 2003 root at verleihnix.int1.b.intern:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/B-VERLEIHNIX i386
Hmm - maybe I should update the system to 4.9-STABLE :-)
> I'm not sure I can afford to do that. I can run the
> machine through a few kernel recompiles, but can't
> leave it down long enough to do a real stress test.
you could go back to a working kernel if 4.9-RELEASE or -STABLE
does not work for you.
> I must say that I am in kind of a quandary nowadays. I'd
> like to install 4.9-RELEASE when I make up a new system,
> but I am very leery of using it on important machines.
> It seems as if the addition of PAE (Why wasn't this
> reserved for 5.x?) caused a lot of problems, and that
Then don't use it...
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Ceri Davies wrote:
> I'm confused; how does one disable PAE? I don't see a kernel option for
> it.
'options PAE' turns it on. Without it turns it off. :)
(googled for "disable PAE FreeBSD")
Regards,
Holger Kipp
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