RE: official 3ware support ?

From: Mike Tancsa (mike_at_sentex.net)
Date: 12/29/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:00:08 -0500
To: Vinod Kashyap <vkashyap@3WARE.com>, stable@freebsd.org

    At 01:55 PM 24/12/2003, Vinod Kashyap wrote:

    >Yes, 3ware now supports FreeBSD!
    >
    >The driver you find on the 3ware website has been
    >extensively tested on 4.8, and not yet on 4.9.

    Hi,
             I was just playing around with your beta driver on 4.9
    STABLE. Am I safe to assume that if I dont have PAE enabled and have <=2G
    of RAM installed, the driver should work ? Also, will there be an updated
    3dmd ?

    Thanks for officially supporting FreeBSD!

             ---Mike

    >The changes in this driver should soon make their
    >way into RELENG_4. They are already checked into HEAD.
    >
    >
    >Thanks,
    >
    >Vinod.
    >
    >
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net]
    >Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 8:48 AM
    >To: stable@freebsd.org
    >Cc: ps@freebsd.org
    >Subject: official 3ware support ?
    >
    >
    >
    >While looking for firmware updates on the 3ware site, I notice they now
    >have FreeBSD drivers available for download marked as "beta"
    >
    >The readme with the drivers download says,
    >
    >"This directory contains the 3ware driver (twe.ko) for 7000 series
    >storage controllers, and the corresponding source code. The latest
    >source code can be downloaded from the freebsd kernel tree, by running
    >cvsup.
    >The source code can be found at:
    >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/modules/twe
    >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/twe
    >"
    >
    >However, what is in RELENG_4 differs from what is downloaded from the 3ware
    >site.
    >
    >Also, its marked 4.8. Will it work with 4.9 which has all the PAE changes
    >in it?
    >
    > ---Mike
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