----- 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