[CentOS] New controller card issues

Valeri Galtsev
Thu, 28 May 2015 16:03:43 -0000

On Thu, May 28, 2015 10:46 am, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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> On 5/26/2015 11:07 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Push came to shove - these things gag on a drive > 2TB.
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> I ran into this a couple of years ago with some older 3Ware cards. A
> firmware update fixed it.
>

With 3ware cards depending on card model:

1. the card supports drives > 2TB
2. the card as initially released does not support these drives, but there
is firmware update after installation of which the card will supports
drives > 2TB
3. The card does not support drives > 2TB, even with latest available
firmware. (there are really old cards, even though someone may say
hardware doesn't live this long, I do have them in production as well, and
to the credit of 3ware I must say: I've never seen one dead - excluding
abuse/misuse of course).

Just my $0.02

Valeri


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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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