Hi,
we use these in all our (I/O-sensitive) servers, and they perform very
well. We've upgraded the firmware of all of them to the latest release
(as of about 2 months ago), though I'm not sure if that was done from
FreeBSD or in other systems prior to installation.
We use the 3dm package to manage the boards; it's available in ports
or through pkg_add -r 3dm . It's a version of the web-based management
tool from 3ware; however it's an old version, and I haven't been able
to extract the current version from the installation package provided
by 3ware (plus, it requires Java, but so does other software we use).
/Eirik
On 19. juli 2009, at 02.47, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
Hello all,
This is the first time I'm setting up hardware raid under FreeBSD. The
card is 3ware 9690SA (twa driver) and I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2.
I'm a bit confused about the driver situation. The twa driver that
comes with FreeBSD is at version 3.70.05.001 (listed during boot). I
cannot find this version anywhere on the 3ware site. There is,
however, a reference to 3.70.05.003 [1], which is from 9.5.1 code set
for FreeBSD 7.x. Is there some disconnect between what 3ware releases
for FreeBSD and what actually makes it into the source tree? If so, is
it a better idea to use the driver that comes with FreeBSD 8 or
download the latest source from 3ware and compile that myself (note
that FreeBSD 8.x is not listed anywhere, so my guess is to use the 7.x
version)?
The reason I ask is because I'd like to update the firmware on the
controller, but I have no idea what is the latest version that the
current driver supports. For that matter, I don't know if the firmware
that came with the card is supported, though it appears to be working
for now. Basically, I'm just looking for advice on how to deal with
drivers that are primarily maintained outside of the FreeBSD source
tree.
If anyone else is using the same controller, I'd also appreciate any
advice on setting up the CLI (my guess is that I should use the
sysutils/tw_cli port) and e-mail notifications for things like the
loss of a drive.
- Max
[1] http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14847
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