Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware
Which tells me that all of the work in the last year has been maintenance related to changes within FreeBSD itself, and not any updates for 3Ware functionality, e.g no support for firmware 7.5.x on the 7000 series controllers, and no support for the 8000 series controllers. Jim Lawrence Farr wrote: Have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/twe/ Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Campbell Sent: 21 March 2003 14:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware The author of the twe driver, Michael Smith, confirms he hasn't worked on the driver for several years now. Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I openned a case with 3ware tech support and they responded: We do not support FreeBSD plus the current driver for FreeBSD has not been updated for some time to keep up with firmware changes. Please try linux instead. So I guess I will try that and see what happens. Quoting Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a hard time believing that hardware implementation of RAID5 would corrupt files over RAID10, perhaps your 3ware card/its firmware is malfunctioning, but anything is possible. Well, I'll have to see for myself, I'm about to build RAID5 NAS using maxtor drives and 7500-8 3ware card. -Simon On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:05:36 -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: Tested with RAID 10 instead of RAID 5, success ! RAID 10 arrays tested: 6xWD200GB and 8xWD200GB both worked RAID 5 arrays tested: 6xWD200GB and 4xWD200GB both failed Note: 3ware lists the WD 200GB disk as "Under Test". (ie they have not yet given it a "Compatible" rating) details of tests and the procedure to detect the failure etc at http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/Backup ServerProblem I still have to try an officially approved drive. This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 5889 This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware
But the version of 3dmd for FreeBSD is not a current version and lacks
some features found in 3dmd for Linux and Windows. My situation was
that I needed one of the new features in order to rebuild a RAID1 mirror
("ignore errors when rebuilding"; my "good" drive had a bad sector out
in unused space). I won't be installing anymore FreeBSD/3Ware setups.
Jim
Peter Elsner wrote:
I've been using the 3Ware cards for 2 years on FreeBSD... We had a
drive go south a few weeks ago, and
the 3dmd (3Ware daemon) reported the problem to me. I had a local
hardware tech go out and
replace the drive, boot up the system, and then over the net, I
rebuilt the array. It was back up and
running after about 20 minutes.
I did contact 3Ware tech support when this first happened, to make
sure that I was following the
steps of rebuilding the array correctly. They responded within 24
hours, and told me yes, I was doing
this correctly. And I did mention to them it was FreeBSD. At no
time, did they ever mention
that they didn't support FreeBSD. And that 3Ware daemon works
great... Have it running on
all of my systems all over the country.
Peter
At 08:22 PM 3/20/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Bruce Campbell wrote:
I openned a case with 3ware tech support and they responded:
We do not support FreeBSD plus the
current driver for FreeBSD has not been
updated for some time to keep up with
firmware changes.
Please try linux instead.
So I guess I will try that and see what happens.
I got NO response from 3Ware when I asked them about a newer version
of their management daemon for FreeBSD. I consider the 3Ware cards
to be essentially unsupported on FreeBSD.
Jim
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Re: problem on 1TB filesystem RAID 5 3ware
Bruce Campbell wrote: I openned a case with 3ware tech support and they responded: We do not support FreeBSD plus the current driver for FreeBSD has not been updated for some time to keep up with firmware changes. Please try linux instead. So I guess I will try that and see what happens. I got NO response from 3Ware when I asked them about a newer version of their management daemon for FreeBSD. I consider the 3Ware cards to be essentially unsupported on FreeBSD. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
