Anonymous: 32745 writes: “3ware makes a firmware available for the 6xxx series raid controllers so that these controllers can also read ATA-133 drives larger than 137Gb. The firmware also contains other updates such as SMART Monitoring and Dynamic Sector Repair.
Later this year, this firmware will also be available for the 7xxx series.”:
- Large Drive Support (Full support for drives greater than 137GB,ie Maxtor 160GB)
- Dynamic Sector Repair
- Background RAID Consistency Checking
- SMART Monitoring (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
- Improved Array Maintenance
- Additional O/S support for Red Hat 7.2, SuSE 7.2 & 7.3, and Windows XP
| Version number | 6.9 |
| Operating systems | DOS |
| Website | 3Ware |
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