[geeks] bah.

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>>> 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 can try it, I suppose.  After I get the BIOS flashed and try the amd64
> FreeBSD again.

Ok.  Best of luck.

> Of course, I'm being reminded once again of how rats-ate-the-walls
> spartan the *BSD userspace is...

That's why God made package managers.

>>> 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.
> 
> OpenBSD uses raidframe too, but doesn't seem to have a way to handle the
> bootloader for a boot mirror.

NetBSD does.  It's a little roundabout, but I've used it and it works.

http://kuparinen.org/martti/comp/raid/raid.html

Peace...  Sridhar