Re: 3ware Escalade 6410 == 6x00 series?

[OpenBSD baby <bsd@hitmedia.com>]

For what it's worth, I've been using an Escalade 6800 on OpenBSD 3.0 just fine for months.

It's an 8-port IDE RAID.  (Yes actually 8 IDE cables to 8 IDE drives.) Does RAID 5. 

It's hard to find now, I think they discontinued it.   But if you find one, it does work just fine in OpenBSD 3.0 and up.



On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:42:05AM -0800, Jason Stout wrote:
> I don't know about the 6410, I've never heard of that model. I know the 
> 6400 works. I've been using one here for over a year with no problems.
> 
> Regards,
> Jason Stout
> 
> "Austin Lundeby" wrote
> 
> > 
> > I am trying to set up a file server with a bootable RAID 5 array using a
> > stack of IDE disks and I am looking for a controller card. (I would go to
> > SCSI but I already own 4 40 GB IDE drives so I am stuck for now.) The 3ware
> > Escalade 6410 looks promising but before I purchase it I wanted to confirm
> > that the twe drivers that support the 5x00 and 6x00 series will work with
> > the 6410. I would also be open to suggestions for IDE RAID controller cards
> > from other manufacturers that will support 4 drives, RAID 5 and are
> > bootable.
> > 
> > I also wanted to know what the normal system load on my OpenBSD box should
> > be. I am used to seeing the Linux system load at 0.00 on an empty server
> but
> > my OpenBSD box seems to hold at around 0.08 or so even with nothing running
> > on it. (I've only started poking around with OpenBSD in the past couple of
> > months.)
> > 
> > -Austin Lundeby