I recently installed a system with the following spec's: a. Tyan S5112 b. 3Ware 9500S-8 + 3 SATA driver (Raid 5) (+ 1 SATA driver, for boot only) I have tried CentOS 3.4, CentOS 4 RC1, RHEL 3.2, RHEL 3.4 and RHEL 4, and almost 2 weeks time (1) With CentOS 4 RC1 and RHEL 4 -- neitehr worked. I can't even get to the installation phase, hang at installation CD boot. They do have 3w-9xxx included, but neither worked for me. (2) RHEL 3.2, installed with driver obtained from 3Ware website, this one doesn't work too, my system still can not pick up the RAID card (3) I ended up adding a new drive (160GB SATA) only for boot, installed CentOS 3.4, and compile the driver from source, then mount the RAID 5 (3 200GB SATA). I know this defeats the idea of having RAID5, but that's the only solution I can find at the moment. I was trying to build my own driver disk with driver compiled on my machine. But can not find any information on 3ware website. Anyone knows how? Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Lane" <ryanlane at gmail.com> To: "CentOS discussion and information list" <centos at caosity.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:26 PM Subject: Re: AW: [Centos] 3Ware 9xxx 9500S-4LP SATA Raid with CentOS3.3? > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:40:33 -0700, Seth Bardash > <seth at integratedsolutions.org> wrote: > > BTW, Matt telling you to wait for Centos 4 is not a solution. CentOS 4 is > > based on kernel-2.6.9-5.EL.i686.rpm - to the best of my knowledge this DOES > > NOT contain the 3w-9xxx drivers. The drivers have been added to 2.6.10 and > > later. > > Seth -- I just installed RHEL 4 AS, and the 3w-9xxx is included. But > I'm suspicious. I have _really crappy performance on my raid array > now. I don't have any numbers with me now, but for example, it takes > about 20-25 minutes to format a 260G partition. Read write is > horrible too. I haven't had time to troubleshoot yet (or contact RH, > since this box has support). So the driver is there, but tweaking may > be necessary. > > -Ryan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >