From ce78c73fe1cd0f41c40bc459fbe4319f5a1e5f53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Shalayeff Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:28:50 +0000 Subject: add a firmware bug in raid0 or raid10 initialization; from http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/ --- share/man/man4/twe.4 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'share/man') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3