This for my home network and RAID cards are a "big ticket item" around here so unfortunately getting the LSI MegaRAID controller is not an option at this point ... but yeah - I wish I could trade my card in - even the nice little web interface they use to monitor it can't be installed on my box. I have already emailed their support.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Razmus Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade 7506-8 IDE RAID controller support under OpenBSD 3.8 * 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.17/229 - Release Date: 1/13/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.17/229 - Release Date: 1/13/2006
