add a firmware bug in raid0 or raid10 initialization; from http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/twe.4 b/share/man/man4/twe.4
index c35ddb8442d..595448e8ab4 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/twe.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/twe.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: twe.4,v 1.4 2000/09/15 22:20:29 mickey Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: twe.4,v 1.5 2000/09/21 14:28:49 mickey Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Michael Shalayeff.  All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ To avoid this situation, place
 .Nm
 cards in the lowest slot before other SCSI or RAID disk controllers.
 .Pp
+The current 3ware firmware is known to fail if a redundant configuration
+is selected (RAID0 or RAID10) and the array is heavily used
+(eg. installation) before the controller has finished initialising the array.
+In this case, create the array, boot the installation media and
+leave the array idle untill all controller activity has ceased.
+.Pp
 The card provides a mechanism to receive asynchronous notifications
 about RAID set status change and so forth, unfortunately this
 information is not public.