Getting kernel panic when installer starts formatting partitions. Was: [Centos] How to get 3Ware 9500S controller card working in CentOS 3.1?

Wed Sep 15 07:42:48 UTC 2004
Maurizio Sparesotto <maurizio at limpronta.net>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Corredor" <tecnico at nsstc.uah.edu>
To: <centos at caosity.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: RE: Getting kernel panic when installer starts formatting
partitions.
Was: [Centos] How to get 3Ware 9500S controller card working in CentOS 3.1?


> 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).

Hi David,
I  definitely solved my problems recompiling the kernel  with 3ware
7006-2 RAID1 driver statically compiled in.

I read this thread :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121434#c43

and after some problem (EXT3 error) I decided to recompile from
standard sources.

Sure, thanks to Scott suggestion, You can also recompile only the
3ware driver modules and all work fine but the CPU iowait under
some circumstances go up 70/80% and this is unacceptable.

Maurizio