CentOS - Apr 2006 - 3ware 9550SX and CentOS

I'm getting a couple of systems that are arriving with the new 3ware
9550sx controller.  Does anyone know when this will be natively
supported by CentOS?

Has anyone built an RPM of the driver/module for this new controller?

On 4/4/06, Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm getting a couple of systems that are arriving with the new 3ware
> 9550sx controller.  Does anyone know when this will be natively
> supported by CentOS?
When it's natively supported upstream.
> Has anyone built an RPM of the driver/module for this new controller?
http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14546

Check out the 3ware driver page. They're shipping CentOS compatible
drivers now, and mentioned in their support page.  They work quite
well.
--
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur C. Clarke

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:25, Fong Vang wrote:
> I'm getting a couple of systems that are arriving with the new 3ware
> 9550sx controller.  Does anyone know when this will be natively
> supported by CentOS?
>
> Has anyone built an RPM of the driver/module for this new controller?
You'll need to download the drivers from amcc - the stock centos 4 drivers 
don't find the card. Also, if you're running a board with an nforce
chipset,
you're possiblynot going to be very happy... Even though a lot of people
seem
to run ok that way, many others face issues. I tried several configurations 
and all show stability issues with high throughput. If you have a simple pci 
slot, you'll probably not be able to drive enough I/O - but on a pci-x board
like a tyan S2895 I've seen a number of crashes... 

So if you have random lockups on your config, try stress testing your disk io 
subsystem first... 

Peter.