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 Is the manpage out of date, or are the newer 7xxx and 8xxx series cards now supported as well? -Adaptec has a cheap raid card, the 1200A. No mention of it in the hardware notes. Is it possibly supported by the asr driver? -AMI has an "i4" card (series 511) which is not listed on the hardware list. Might the amr driver support it? Any other new stuff that I may have missed? All of these are sub-$300 cards. Just looking for people who may have tried some of these cards; sometimes the docs lag behind reality. Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman spork@inch.com
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 20:19, 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 Is the manpage out of date, or are the newer 7xxx and 8xxx 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? > > -Adaptec has a cheap raid card, the 1200A. No mention of it in the > hardware notes. Is it possibly supported by the asr driver? >This one uses the ar driver. Im using one, works fine and I havnt had any problems so far. Andy
* Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> [2003-06-13 04:19:00 -0400]:> Any other new stuff that I may have missed? All of these are sub-$300 > cards. Just looking for people who may have tried some of these cards; > sometimes the docs lag behind reality.I'm using the six-channel promise card (sx6000) at the moment. It is supported under freebsd by the pst() device driver. /dev/pst0s1e 550G 175G 331G 35% /mnt/promise it supports raid levels 0,1,3 and 5. My system is running 4.8 from a recent RELENG_4 cvsup. Cheers, Alex Trull Systems and Network Administrator & Information Commissioner C : +44 (0) 7966 203990 | Hybyte Solutions & Services Ltd D : +44 (0) 2079 764219 | 114-116 Rochester Row S : +44 (0) 2079 764200 | Victoria, London F : +44 (0) 2079 764229 | SW1P 1JQ https://mail.uk.hybyte.net/~atrull/pgppub.key 0x1DCBCFB7
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fran: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@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@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
At 04:19 AM 13/06/2003 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:>-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?The man page is just out of date. The 7xxx series cards work great for us. We have a number deployed in RAID0,1 and RAID 10. The only issue to watch out for is the 3dmd needs to be patched to work with POST 4.8R. Also there was mention that there might be some updated work http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=47571+0+archive/2003/freebsd-hardware/20030525.freebsd-hardware Not sure if thats on the 3dmd or on the drivers. ---Mike>-Adaptec has a cheap raid card, the 1200A. No mention of it in the >hardware notes. Is it possibly supported by the asr driver?I think the ar driver supports it.
Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote:> At 04:19 AM 13/06/2003 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >-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? > > The man page is just out of date. The 7xxx series cards work great for > us. We have a number deployed in RAID0,1 and RAID 10. The only issue to > watch out for is the 3dmd needs to be patched to work with POST 4.8R.Not anymore. Tegge fixed this.> Also there was mention that there might be some updated work > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=47571+0+archive/2003/freebsd-hardware/20030525.freebsd-hardware > > Not sure if thats on the 3dmd or on the drivers.Should be everything, but work will not be starting for atleast 2 weeks.
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@srrc.ars.usda.gov
Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> writes:> -AMI has an "i4" card (series 511) which is not listed on the hardware > list. Might the amr driver support it?I think this is what I'm using, re-labeled as DELL CERC (4 ATA channels): amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID> mem 0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 5 at device 7.0 on pci0 amr0: <LSILogic CERC ATA100/4ch> Firmware 6.61, BIOS 1.01, 16MB RAM It looks like and matches the docs at: http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/i4.html Seems to be working fine under FreeBSD-5.0-RELEASE, 5.0-CURRENT and 5.1-CURRENT. Looks like: amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd0: 9999MB (20477952 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) amrd1: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd1: 111093MB (227518464 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) amrd2: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd2: 111093MB (227518464 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) amrd3: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd3: 111099MB (227530752 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a Searching for RAID stuff, Michael Smith http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/ pointed me to Eric Dean Moore <emoore@lsil.com> who's working on this and appears to have multi-user-level support for monitoring and controlling at: http://people.freebsd.org/~emoore/ but I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Paul Saab wrote:> A FreeBSD native CLI and an updated 3dmd are in the works now.Excellent news, thanks for the info. Is there someone "on the inside" now working on this, or have they supplied docs to whomever is maintaining the twe driver? Thanks, Charles> Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote: > > It does for me. Here is an example warning I get on bad drives. It also > > logs it to kern via syslog. > > > > SMART Threshold Exceeded condition detected on port 1 on controller ID:0. > > Check drive for media errors. (0xf) > > > > This was from a bad Fujitsu. > > > > ---Mike >
--On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:28 PM -0400 Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> wrote:> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Paul Saab wrote: > >> A FreeBSD native CLI and an updated 3dmd are in the works now. > > Excellent news, thanks for the info. Is there someone "on the inside" now > working on this, or have they supplied docs to whomever is maintaining the > twe driver?Yes, I am the one working on it.
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Fran: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org]For Paul Saab>Yes, I am the one working on it.Does this also mean FBSD will be getting support for the 8500 SATA RAID controller from 3ware? Matt
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