To quote the regular contributors on this mailing list:
check the fine list archives
(e.g. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&r=1&w=2)
And the condensed summary of the discussions is:
OpenBSD _recognizes_ the 3ware Escalade (6x00, 7xx0) series of
controllers, but for all practical purposes you will NOT get the
benefits normally associated with RAID. So the only circumstances I
would use one of these today is if I have to recover from an existing
controller hardware failure and for whatever reason I cannot (or do not
want to) rebuild the system. 7210 will sucessfully replace a 6500 when
used with a mirrored pair of drives, but even then you will loose
functionality -- the 6500 does rebuilds in firmware, whereas all
(except _maybe_ the very old) 7000 series controllers do it in the host
driver binary blob which is NOT available on OpenBSD.
On 26 Dec 2007 at 18:05, Matthias Tarasiewicz wrote:
> i have to replace a 3ware 6500 ata-pci card and since i could get a
> 3ware Escalade 7210 quite cheap i was wondering, if that card is
> compatible with openbsd? - the hardware compatibility site for openbsd
> says "3W-7x00" - anyone has the 7210 running with openbsd or knows if
> it will work?
>
> thanks,
> matthias
>
>
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