CentOS - Aug 2006 - 3Ware 9500 vs 9550 vs CentOS 4.latest kernel

Is anyone having issues with these particular cards (especially the 
newer SATAII variant) and the stock CentOS kernels?   Are they well 
supported enough such that a "yum update" suffices to keep them synced
up with patches without having to hand edit the kernel or build special 
modules from 3Ware each time? 

Cheers,

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 6:02am, chrism at imntv.com wrote
> Is anyone having issues with these particular cards (especially the newer 
> SATAII variant) and the stock CentOS kernels?   Are they well supported 
> enough such that a "yum update" suffices to keep them synced up
with patches
> without having to hand edit the kernel or build special modules from 3Ware 
> each time?
Up to centos 4.3, the 9500 cards benefit from a driver upgrade and the 
9550 cards demand one.  In the 4.4 kernel, however, the driver was 
upgarded and should handle all cards quite well out of the box.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University