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@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 wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 6:02am, chrism@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.
Sweet! :)
Thanks for the quick reply.
Cheers,
Does this mean that we can update the kernel alone? I mean does kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm have the driver built in?.
Thanks Rajeev
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:21 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9500 vs 9550 vs CentOS 4.latest kernel
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 at 6:02am, chrism@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.
Rajeev R Veedu wrote:
Does this mean that we can update the kernel alone? I mean does kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm have the driver built in?.
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.
Cheers,
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.
It's both actually. This is a 4.4 kernel which has been released early 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 update just the kernel without problem.
Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9500 vs 9550 vs CentOS 4.latest kernel
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.
It's both actually. This is a 4.4 kernel which has been released early 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 update just the kernel without problem.
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.
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Troy Engel spake the following on 8/24/2006 10:09 AM:
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.
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Strange .. I have 2 systems with 9500s-4LP's and they rebooted fine.
Scott Silva wrote:
Troy Engel spake the following on 8/24/2006 10:09 AM:
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.
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Strange .. I have 2 systems with 9500s-4LP's and they rebooted fine.
I wonder if you guys might have different firmware revs.
I cajoled my system integrator into sending me both 9500 and 9550 cards so I can decide which works better for us and send the extras back. The 9550 allegedly has better performance for RAID5 so I'm hoping those work out OK.
Cheers,
chrism@imntv.com spake the following on 8/24/2006 12:11 PM:
Scott Silva wrote:
Troy Engel spake the following on 8/24/2006 10:09 AM:
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.
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Strange .. I have 2 systems with 9500s-4LP's and they rebooted fine.
I wonder if you guys might have different firmware revs.
I cajoled my system integrator into sending me both 9500 and 9550 cards so I can decide which works better for us and send the extras back. The 9550 allegedly has better performance for RAID5 so I'm hoping those work out OK.
Cheers,
I had to use the 9500's because of the servers they were put in. They are too old for PCI-X.
Scott Silva wrote:
I wonder if you guys might have different firmware revs.
Or my machine could have just been having a hissy fit, on soft reboot. Things go awry with tech all the time, not worth worrying about. :)
The 9550 allegedly has better performance for RAID5 so I'm hoping those work out OK.
I had to use the 9500's because of the servers they were put in. They are too old for PCI-X.
...and mine has been around for awhile, a 9550 that fit the bill wasn't a reality. I would love the better performance, but this is just a backup-to-disk machine so it can take all night/day for what I care.
Here are two sample stat numbers out of Arkeia NetBackup that are from last night. First, tons and tons of small files, so lots of network overhead and whatnot:
"879073" files, "1045" MB, compressed at "1.3", "4008" seconds, "15" MB/mn
Then a few very large files, so it's all streaming and writing to disk in a continuous flow over a single 100mbit link:
"5" files, "7333" MB, compressed at "2.0", "368" seconds, "1195" MB/mn
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Sorry to ask the question again,
I have installed 3ware 9550sx card with 4.3 versions. My question is, when 4.4 rolls out the up2date on the current system will update the kernel and put the driver automatically? Or do I need to re-install? Thanks
Rajeev
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of chrism@imntv.com Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9500 vs 9550 vs CentOS 4.latest kernel
Rajeev R Veedu wrote:
Does this mean that we can update the kernel alone? I mean does kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.x86_64.rpm have the driver built in?.
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.
Cheers,
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Rajeev R Veedu wrote:
Sorry to ask the question again,
I have installed 3ware 9550sx card with 4.3 versions. My question is, when 4.4 rolls out the up2date on the current system will update the kernel and put the driver automatically? Or do I need to re-install? Thanks
My understanding is that it will just work by itself since the necessary bits will be included in the kernel as of CentOS 4.4.
I'm sure someone will correct me if my understanding is mistaken.
Cheers,
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