CentOS - Nov 2007 - OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9500 firmware upgrades

I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the firmware 
for the 9500S than I have on several machines.  All of mine are running:

3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, Ports: 8.

and the latest rev appears to be 3.08.  I'm wondering if there is any 
compelling reason to upgrade or just let these sleeping dogs lie.  :)  
Any sage (or other) advice would be much appreciated.

Best,

Chris Mauritz wrote:
> I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the 
> firmware for the 9500S than I have on several machines.  All of mine 
> are running:
>
> 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, 
> Ports: 8.
>
> and the latest rev appears to be 3.08.  I'm wondering if there is any 
> compelling reason to upgrade or just let these sleeping dogs lie.  :)  
> Any sage (or other) advice would be much appreciated.
Since nobody else responded...  :)

I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the 
machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a 
couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines.  EXT3 
performance seems to have improved noticeably on the RAID 0 devices I 
tested so it might be worth the update.

Best,