= Vendor information =

3Ware (http://www.3ware.com) card are usually well supported on Linux.[[BR]]
Theses cards are often considered as some of the bests hardware RAID controllers for GNU/Linux or BSD systems.[[BR]]
3Ware supports Linux and provide an '''opensource kernel driver''' which is part of Linux since ages.

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= Linux kernel drivers =

There is two drivers for 3ware cards:
|| Driver || Supported cards ||
|| 3w_xxxx || 3Ware Eskalad 7000 and 8000 series ||
|| 3w_9xxx || 3Ware Eskaled 9000 series ||

You should not expect any problems with theses drivers which are known to be '''mature''' and '''stable'''.[[BR]]
We don't know any current Linux distrubtion which miss theses drivers so no additional step should be required to get it working.

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= Management and reporting tools =

It currently exists '''no opensource tools''' for the 3Ware cards.
However, 3Ware provides two proprietary utilities for x86 and x86_64 linux systems.

== tw_cli ==

tw_cli is a command line tool to manage and monitore Eskaled cards. It works fine with 7000 and 8000 cards, as well as with the 9000 series.[[BR]]
Latest version is 2.00.07.009, available in 3Ware applications package release 9.5.0.1.

''AVAILABLE IN OUR DEBIAN PACKAGES REPOSITORY FOR BOTH I386 AND AMD64 ARCHITECTURES !''

== 3dm2 ==

3DM2 is a Web applications with an embedded web servers that allow use to do the same things than with tw_cli but graphical.[[BR]]
It's works fine and doesn't rely on insane dependencies like java, tomcat or something else.