[CentOS] 3Ware 9500 vs 9550 vs CentOS 4.latest kernel

[Troy Engel]

Jim Perrin wrote:
>> That is a 4.3 kernel.  Joshua said that as of *4.4* the updated bits
>> will be included in the kernel.  4.4 is a week or two off, I believe.
> 
> because it's related to a security update. the -42.0.2  kernel does
> indeed "Just Work" with the 9550 cards, so you should be able to

I decided to give it a go on my 9500S-12 machine. I was running -34.0.2 
with the downloaded driver; my machine hung on reboot to -42.0.2, but a 
hard poweroff/poweron cycle fixed that nonsense; it had hung booting the 
initial initrd load on the new kernel. (just some FYI for remote rebooters).

Drivers:
   2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp: v2.26.02.001
   2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp: v2.26.04.010

I was previously running v2.26.04.009 tarball, so a small upgrade came 
with the kernel. I just looked at 3ware.com, and this new driver version 
isn't downloadable yet. Hmmm.

-te

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