[SDBUG] OpenBSD with 3Ware 9550

[Michael J McCafferty]

At 01:43 PM 1/22/2007, you wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:42:00PM -0800, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> > All,
> >         Has anyone used a 3Ware Escalade 9550 4-channel SATA RAID
> > card (or any of the 9xxx series cards) with OpenBSD 4.0 (or other 
> versions)
> > ?
> >
> >         I use the 3Ware 8006  2-channel SATA RAID card with OpenBSD
> > in maybe 20 servers, but I am setting up two higher power servers
> > which have the 9550 in them and OpenBSD doesn't see the card/drives.
> > I thought the 3Ware driver was the same for all of the their cards.
> > Is there a trick to getting OpenBSD to see the cards/drives ?
> >         Where do I go from here ?
>
>I'm not sure the best direction for you to go.
>
>The 9000 series (9500, 9550) 3ware cards use a different driver than the
>7000 or 8000 series. In NetBSD (and Free, I think), they are the twa and
>twe drivers, respectively. The "tw" is Three Ware, and "a" for Apache, and
>"e" for Escalade (sp?).
>
>So it might be driver porting time. :-(
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill

Bill,
         Thanks. As an emergency work-around to get us going on this 
short time line project, I am picking up a couple of the Escalade 
2-channel cards. Perhaps slower than the new whiz-bang units, but 
they work.... that is known, and for sure.
         We will fiddle with the Apache units later.

Thanks !
Mike