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greetings, the subject says it all right? ;-> naw...... is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS? - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

We have created a Centos 9500S Floppy Boot Disk for installing Centos on a 3ware 9500S series controller that will allow installing and booting directly from this controller. This boot disk supports only AMD XP, MP and Opterons in 32 bit mode Centos 3.4 for the up and smp versions. We can also do a x86_64 version if requi...

In regard of the e-mail sent on Jul/16/04 about the 3Ware 9500S. Has anyone experienced/solved this issue ?? I'm having a similar problem, I already have the system installed on a separate disk, now I want to make the filesystem on the RAID partition (using 3Ware 9500S-8). First I had the problem that the card will keep resetting after continous tim...

Hello I have at this time a w3are 7006-2 controller in my server Dual Xenon 2.8Ghz . But now i will change it to a 9500S-4LP SATA Raid Controller. I have seen in lsmod that the 7000 driver is loaded. scsi_mod 115112 3 [sg 3w-xxxx sd_mod] My question Is it possible to running this card with centos 3.3? I have seen this at 3ware http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=12706 But there is only for...

We have built and packaged a driver install disk for CentOS 3.3 for the 3ware 9500S series of SATA Raid controllers to allow iso installation and booting from a 3ware 9500S based RAID array. Its available at: http://www.integratedsolutions.org/drivers.html We only ask that you log in so we can send you update notices as new drivers become available. We will not use the informat...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings folks, I'm currently redoing my home server as one of the hard drives in my RAID-1 array went down and I'm going to replace the lot of it with a 3Ware Escalade 9500S RAID capable card and four Seagate 200GB SATA drives. These drives are supposedly the coolest and quietest SATA drives available (better than the Maxtors I had anyway) and the capacity upgrade on the server is worth the $$$ at this point. I'm planning on running them in RAID-5 for maximum dis...

...e array on the 3Ware controller card. 3Ware does provide a RH WS 3 driver that I've tried to use; however, the RH Enterprise 3 WS driver doesn't work since that kernel is older than the CentOS-3.1 install kernel. I'm trying to create a centOS-3.1 installation driver disk for the 3ware 9500S card; however, I'm not having much luck. I've compiled the drivers on a stock centOS 3.1 install and created a modules.cgz file (using find . -depth | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -c > ../modules.cgz) with the newly-compiled driver modules. Here are the contents of the modules.cgz file I cre...

I am thinking of using this controller with 8 x 80gbyte SATA drives an Raid 5, on Centos 4.x does anyone have experience of this type of setup and what type of performance can I expect on a AMD dual 2.8Ghz MP cpu system with 2gb ram? Thanks Denis

http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=11843 "These instructions are for RH Advanced Server Update 2 and ****any other Linux distribution that does not include the driver for the 3ware 9000 series controllers.**** " The knowledgebase article also includes the aforementioned perl script(dug a bit more and found it).

From a buddy of mine that has spent a little time with the new cards. This was in response to my email asking about his impressions of them: It just came out in mid-September. There are a couple reasons I'm not thrilled with it: 1) no 8-port multilane version (only 12) 2) the 8-port non-multilane version is a kludge, connector-wise (a row of 3 double-stacked connectors along the

...gt; To: CentOS discussion and information list <centos@caosity.org></font> <br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> cc: </font> <br><font size=1 face="sans-serif"> Subject: Re: AW: [Centos] 3Ware 9xxx 9500S-4LP SATA Raid with CentOS3.3?</font></table> <br> <br> <br><font size=2><tt>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:40:33 -0700, Seth Bardash<br> <seth@integratedsolutions.org> wrote:<br> > BTW, Matt telling you to wait for Centos 4 is not a solution. C...

Hi All, I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX) How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I ca...

...he setup. Original Kernel: kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL, booting fine. Error with kernel-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL (and kernel-2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp) No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found. ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! The system has a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller Model: 9500S-4LP Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052, Ports: 4. Anyone seen this? I've googled but can't find anything, except that: [184523] -add support for 3ware 9650SE SATA-RAID (Chip Coldwell) ... in 2.6.9-44 Regards, Ugo

Hello list, I see through the archives that some people here use 3ware RAID controllers with Centos. I have picked up two 9500S-4LP controllers for future servers. I was hoping that if some people could please share their 3ware monitoring scripts with the rest of the group. What I am really hoping to do is have some setup where a cron job runs scripts to test each of the drives connected to the controller to make sure they...

Hi All, I've just started caring for a dual Opteron machine. It has a 3Ware 9500S-12 RAID controller, a Tyan S2882G3NR motherboard, 10 IBM 400GB disk drives, and a 650 watt power supply. It has been behaving itself quite nicely until recently. The poor behavior started when I upgraded the OS from CentOS 4.1 (32 bit) to Centos 4.1 (x86_64). When running in uniprocessor mode...

Here are the version numbers I get after installing the 9.2.1.1 release: Model 9500S-4LP Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.003 Driver 2.26.03.019fw BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052 Boot Loader BL9X 2.02.00.001 A bit confusing. I thought I saw a map of code set releases to various version numbers but I couldn't find it on 3Ware's site. On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 at 9:20am, Bryan J. Smith w...

...ly 40MB/s on an ext2 file system. IMO, this is horrible performance for a 6-drive, hardware RAID 5 array. Please have a look at what I'm doing and let me know if anybody has any suggestions on how to improve the performance... System specs: ----------------- 2 x 2.8GHz Xeons 6GB RAM 1 3ware 9500S-12 2 x 6-drive, RAID 5 arrays with a stripe size of 256KB. Each array is 2.3TB after formatting. ioscheduler set to use the deadline scheduler. mkfs.ext2 options used: ------------------------ mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L /d01 -m 1 -O sparse_super,dir_index -R stride=64 -T largefile /dev/sda1 I'm us...

Hi everyone, I'm looking into setting up a SATA hardware raid, probably 5 to use with CentOS 4. I chose hardware raid over software mostly because I like the fact that the raid is transparent to the OS. Does anyone know of any SATA controllers that are well tested for this sort of usage? From what I can tell from googling, this is more or less where RHEL stands: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Claims to have fixed the write performance issues with multiple volumes. Haven't tried it personally (I do not have a 9500S card, and I have only installed one once for a client). NOTE: This (9.2.1.1) is an actual, formal, supported release -- not an unsupported engineering release. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot...

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 ot...