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.