I have a 3Ware Escalade 7506-8 IDE RAID controller that is currently running on Suse 9.3 in a RAID 5 array and I am trying to see if I can use it with OpenBSD 3.8. I know from the OpenBSD Hardware Compatibility web page that the twe driver supports the following : 3ware Escalade 3W-5x00 and 3W-6x00 series (twe) . However I was wondering if anyone has any experience using this card under OpenBSD 3.8 .
>From Googling I saw a post from someone here (http://screamingelectron.org/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=1955) that they got a similar card to work under OpenBSD 3.6. However they only state that "Tada! Just thought I'd post an info update. The 3Ware 7506-4 raid card is supported in OpenBSD 3.6 using the aforementioned twe driver!". I am not sure what is meant by "supported" . So. Is anyone using this card under OpenBSD 3.8 and if so what support is available ? i.e. Can you only use the RAID array without any means of detecting a failure/rebuilding or are there any management tools available to you ? From what I have seen in the recent posts all of the OpenBSD RAID work (pretty impressive !) is for other cards/drivers. Is this correct ? I am not looking for anything fancy, just the ability to detect a drive failure, the ability to know the status of the hard drives, and to rebuild a degraded array. TIA, Greg -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.17/228 - Release Date: 1/12/2006
