* Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060114 02:34]: > 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!". > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.000000 required=0.900000 > > 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 >
Replace it with an LSI MegaRAID controller and don't look back. 3Ware is on the same boat with Adaptec. They will not share the documentation the developers need to fully support their controllers. man bioctl to read what fully supported means. Jim
