Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:39:30PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> After finally getting Sarge installed on my SuperMicro X6DHT-G
> motherboard system, I am having a problem recognizing the 3ware 9550
> SATA Raid Controller card. I have loaded the 3w-9xxx module but that is
> not getting me anywhere yet. This system boots from a separate SATA disk
> so the system is running, just without the 1.6TB raid array :(
>
> lspci is reporting:
>
> 0000:03:02.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc: Unknown device 1003
>
> So, I think what needs to happen next is one or more of the following:
>
> 1) upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel
> 2) compile the updated vendor source for 3w-9xxx module on either
> 2.6.8-11 or 2.6.12
> 3) something simpler that I am missing.
>
> Ideally, I would like to use a stock kernel which was why I was thinking
> of getting 2.6.12 from etch otherwise I will need to try and figure out
> how to use the kernel-package system and long term maintenance becomes a
> bigger problem.
>
> Thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
My experience is that amd64 systems run much better with 2.6.12 than
2.6.8 in general. So I personally think the upgrade is very worthwhile.
Keeping the rest with stable is usually fine.
Len Sorensen
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