Thank you all for your comments. I have used Promise controllers in the
past TX4000 without incidence, so I assumed this SX6000 would work
flawlessly.
You guys have convinced me that 3ware is the way to go.
Thank you for your quick responses
Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 04:30 PM 26/10/2004, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware
> 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I was previously using a Promise
> controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card.
This is something of a FAQ.
There's a long list of people using 3ware 6/7/8xxx series cards in
FreeBSD
4.x boxes with great success. AFAIK that extends to 5.x as well.
Yes, I am one who always seems to pipe up. I use this very card
specifically on a busy pop3/imap server. The mail spool is made up of
4 drives in RAID10 and 2 other ports are used for the base OS in
RAID1. Its been in service in this config for over a year without issue.
When it comes time to replace bad drives, all has worked as expected
for us. We dont use hot swap trays (dont really trust the electrical
design of many of them), so we do it while powered down. Literally,
shutdown, pull the bad drive, put in the new, go into the BIOS (or you
can use the cmd line tools), add the new drive to the RAID set, exit
out and let it boot and thats it. The controller rebuilds in the
background and notifies you when done.
There were at some point a bad batch of 7000 series cards that needed
to be RMA'd (perhaps 2+ yrs ago now ?). But other than that one time
hardware issue, they work great on all the platforms we have (i386 on
FreeBSD, Linux, Win2k).
We also use most of the other cards, except for the 9xxx series which
we have no experience with yet.
---Mike
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