Re: how 'supported' are 3ware Escalade controllers?

From: Christian Brueffer <chris_at_unixpages.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:44:40 +0200
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:32:49PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:20:01AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > If you are putting together a new system, I would look at the SATA series 
> > of their cards, the 8000.  I dont have any experience yet with their newer 
> > generation 9000 cards and they use newer drivers so I dont know how well 
> > tested they are. However, the older 7506-8 we are currently using in our 
> > pop3 server has been working very well for us for the past year.
> 
> I wanted to make use of file snapshots in FreeBSD 5.x (aiming at
> 5.2.1 right now).
> 
> I'm reviewing <http://www.3ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp>.  This
> page implies that the 7000 and 8000 series is not supported, and
> I'd gave to stick with 9000 series.
> 
> Is that info out of date?  I suppose I could call 3Ware, but it's
> a holiday, and I'm assuming they're not open (but the FBSD community
> is always there for me; right guys? ;)
> 

Well, they do list FreeBSD under both, 7000/8000 and 9000 (even though
5.x is not explicitly mentioned).

But to answer your question, the 7000/8000 series is supported by the
twe driver (a list of supported hardware is in the manpage).

- Christian

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