[geeks] bah.

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> *sigh*
>>> Back to the drawing board....
>>>
>>> But at least now I know it SHOULD run a BSD amd64 MP kernel.
>> NetBSD's twe(4) doesn't support the 9000, but it's twa(4) does.  Check 
>> if it's the same with OpenBSD.
> 
> OpenBSD doesn't have a twa(4) driver.  Thank 3Ware's obstructivity for
> that, according to Theo.
> 
> I know the FreeBSD twa(4) driver supports it, but I haven't gotten to
> the bottom of the FreeBSD stability or amd64-compatibility issues yet.

Like I said, NetBSD has a twa(4) that supports it.  I guess that might 
be a next logical step.

> I also found out during the OpenBSD and FreeBSD experiments so far that
> FreeBSD seems pretty happy to boot from a software RAID1 mirror, but
> OpenBSD seems is a little hinky about the idea; you can build a raid0
> device holding the entire system easily enough, but the raid0 device
> doesn't have a valid MBR to install the bootloader, and installboot
> won't perform cross-device boot installs.

NetBSD does all this without any problems, using raidframe.

Peace...  Sridhar