4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers

[Darren Pilgrim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jason Thomson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:38 AM
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 4-STABLE and 3Ware 9000 series controllers
> 
> 
> We have a one machine with a 9500S-4 controller in RAID 10 
> configuration.
> 
> Performance in RAID10 configuration is subjectively no 
> different to the
> 7506-4 in RAID10. (Both cards seem excellent with similar disks - WD
> 200GB / 8MB cache drives).  We haven't done any systematic testing.
> 
> AFAIK the real advantage for the 9000 series cards is for 
> RAID5 arrays.
> 
> A few caveats:
> 
> 1.  The firmware is included in the driver.  The driver will 
> update the
> card's firmware if the driver has more recent firmware than the card.
> The firmware that came with the 4-STABLE driver at the beginning of
> August was quite old;  we had to kldload a more recent driver from the
> 3ware website in order to complete the install.
> 
> 2.  We haven't been able to get 3dm2 working on this machine. (But the
> CLI does work).  We haven't spent a huge amount of time on it yet - but
> do want to get it working to remotely monitor the array / generate
> alerts.

I'm not surprised, the version for FreeBSD is a very poor port from a Linux
version that uses Linux-style file placement and init scripts.  It's
sickening to read through.  But then this is from the same people whose
single "BSD guy" got confused when I asked what value for CPUTYPE was used
when compiling the twe module and tw_cli software.

Does anyone have a rewritten installer script and/or an rc.subr-style
startup script for 3dm2?