Subject: Re: 3WARE Escalade 8500-8 Serial ATA RAID Controller
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/13/2003 10:27:04
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:58:17PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 emre@uab.edu wrote:
> 
> > Will this card work under netbsd 1.6?  I know that the 7000 series are
> > supported, but I heard there was a bug and they renamed it to 7500 or
> > something like that.
> 
> No. The difference between the 70xx and 75xx cards is that the 75xx have
> faster RAID-5.
> 
> At any rate, if you try an 85xx, let me know how it works. I've used a
> 7508 in the past and been quite pleased with it, except that the card
> itself seems unable to process more than about 120 I/Os per second, no
> matter how many drives you have and how fast the drives are.

That's *extremely* strange.  The humble 6410 in anoncvs.netbsd.org can
clear hundreds of transactions per second so long as you don't force it
to seek all over the place -- it's running RAID 1, however.

Thor